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Antigua Guatemala (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈtiɣwa ɣwateˈmala]), commonly known as Antigua or La Antigua, is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala. The city was the capital of the Captaincy General of Guatemala from 1543 through 1773, with much of its Baroque -influenced architecture and layout dating from that period.
Español: Durante el festival foral de noviembre en Antigua Guatemala, se adornan con arreglos florales los parques, fuentes, ventanas y portones de las principales calles de la Ciudad de Antigua, Guatemala.
English: Ruins of the cathedral of Antigua Guatemala. Memorial stone place in 1960 to mark the tombs of Francisco Marroquín, first bishop of Guatemala, conquistador Pedro de Alvarado, his wife Beatriz de la Cueva, and daughter Leonor de Alvarado, conquistadors Pedro de Portocarrero, Francisco de la Cueva and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and Luisa Xicoténcatl, Pedro de Alvarado's concubine.
The museum is housed in the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, which dates to the 16th century and was once the seat of the Captaincy General of Guatemala. [5] The building is also a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site. [6] The first phase of the museum was inaugurated on September 10, 2021. [7]
La Recolección Architectural Complex is a former church and monastery of the Order of the Recollects (Ordo Fratrum Minorum Recollectorum) and its adjacent park in Antigua, Guatemala. It is in the western part of the old city.
Consejo Nacional para la Protección de la Antigua (n.d.), Guía del Consejo Nacional para la protección de la Antigua (in Spanish), Guatemala; De Guate (2012). "El Terremoto de Santa Marta". De Guate (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 February 2014; Gobierno de Guatemala (1907). Álbum de Minerva 1907 (in Spanish). Vol.
Panchoy – Antigua Guatemala In 1543, Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala was once again refounded, this time at Panchoy. The new city survived as the capital of colonial Guatemala through the rest of the 16th century, the 17th century, and most of the 18th century, until it was severely damaged by the 1773 Guatemala earthquake.
Parish of San José in the old Cathedral of Santiago de la Antigua Guatemala in an engraving of 1884. [4] Note the collapse of the bell towers after the earthquake of 1874. After the earthquakes of 1773, the cathedral was moved to Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción (Guatemala City) on November 22, 1779 and the Parish church of El Sagrario, which ...