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Hotel Villa Colonial
Precioso hotel y preciosa ciudad plagada de monumentos, algunos en ruinas que le dan todavía más encanto. Durante la época colonial fue la capital de la Capitanía General de Guatemala, hasta su traslado a la actual Ciudad de Guatemala.
Su nombre oficial es Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, aunque actualmente se la conoce como Antigua Guatemala.
Mercado en la localidad de Santa María De Jesús, municipio del departamento de Sacatepéquez en la República de Guatemala.
Al fondo, el Volcán de Agua.
Almolonga, el mercado de alimentos más auténtico de Guatemala
El 96% de los habitantes de este pueblo situado a tan sólo cinco kilómetros de Quetzaltenango son indígenas y eso explica la razón de rendirle una visita. Sobre todo a sabiendas de que no forma parte de los circuitos turísticos, que Almolonga está considerada la huerta de Centroamérica y que cuenta probablemente con el mejor mercado de alimentación de todo el país. Mayoritariamente quiché, la gente local aprovecha a vender los productos de la tierra cada mañana desde aproximadamente las 5:00 hasta las 10:00 horas. Incluso vienen compradores de El Salvador, sabedores de las las excepcionales condiciones con las que crecen frutas y hortalizas en esta comarca moldeada con pura tierra volcánica.
People spend hours making these intricate designs on the street only to have them destroyed when religious parades go by. Once the parades have passed by, they immediately begin to create another design for the same thing to happen all over again.
Antigua is a very charming little town located in southern Guatemala. It's a great place for Spanish immersion classes. The city is surrounded by beautiful volcanos and a unique culture.
Yaxha (or Yaxhá in Spanish orthography) is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the northeast of the Petén Basin region, and a former ceremonial centre and city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. Yaxha was the third largest city in the region and experienced its maximum power during the Early Classic period (c. AD 250–600). Wikipedia
I taked a lot off pictures from this eruption. From gold hour to night in deferents compositions.
It is the Fuego volcano in january 25.
Guatemala, Central America.
National Anthem of Guatemala
Happy Guatemala, may your sake
Never be trampled by the tormentor
Nor should slaves lick the yoke
Nor should tyrants spit in your face
If tomorrow your sacred soil
Is threatened by foreign invasion
Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
To victory or death it will call
Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
To victory or death it will call
Since your people, with fiery soul
Will die before becoming slaves
From your old and hard chains
You forged, with an ire-driven hand,
The plow that fertilizes the soil
And the sword that saves honor.
Our fathers fought one day,
Lit up in patriotic burning
And they were able, without bloody clash,
To place you on a throne of love.
That our Nation, in energetic assent,
Gave life to the ideal redeemer.
Your emblem shows a piece of the sky
In which a cloud gets its whiteness
Wretched is he who dares in madness
stain your colors
Well, your brave and proud sons
who admire the peace within
will never avoid the rough battles
if they are to defend their land and their home.
Lying in the magnificent Ande
with two oceans at hearing distance
under the wing of seeds and gold
you become entranced from the beautiful quetzal
Native bird that lives in your seal
protector that protects your soil
hopefully he will fly high
more than the condor and the royal eagle!
and in his wings, raise up to the sky:
Guatemala, your immortal name!
Los rituales mayas se mezclan con símbolos católicos de tal manera que el sincretismo religioso se adueña del camposanto. Los colores rosa, azul, rojo fresa, amarillo o verde de las tumbas y templetes así como de las cruces, tienen su razón de ser. La tradición manda que el blanco de la pureza es para enterrar a los padres y el azul turquesa que significa protección para las mujeres se utiliza para enterrar a las madres. El color rosa para las niñas y el azul celeste para los niños y el amarillo se reserva para los abuelos, ya que representa la protección del sol sobre la humanidad.
Antigua, Guatemala
The Santa Catalina Arch in Guatemala’s city of Antigua is an icon of a lost colonial masterpiece. The city was founded by conquistadors in 1543 and later become one of the most celebrated in the Spanish indies. It lies in the shadow of Volcan Agua, but a series of brutal earthquakes decimated the settlement, causing its abandonment in 1773. Antigua Guatemala lay in ruins until it was declared a national monument in 1944. It is now the darling of the tourist trail, and the arch its centrepiece.
I got a couple of good shots from the plane as we took off from Guatemala City. I'm not sure if the volcano is Pacaya or Fuego. If anyone knows, let me know.
Local market in Antigua, Guatemala.
Textiles is perhaps Guatemala's best-known and most popular artisanal activity; It is also one of the most important export products in the country. The most popular fabrics are produced by indigenous women, creating intricate designs with multiple colors; but in general, typical fabrics are produced by both, women and men, women use the traditional back-strap loom with wooden sticks, while men use a big pedal loom to produce them.
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