Antigua Guatemala

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Antigua Guatemala is a city in Guatemala.

  • Volcán de Agua ("Volcano of Water") in background with temporary street carpeting for Easter celebrations in foreground, 1980.

  • Homestead in the earthquake ruins of a colonial building, Antigua Guatemala; Volcán de Fuego (left) and Acatenango (right) in background, 1979

  • Earthquake damaged colonial church facade

  • road sign with pre-Columbian stone head discovered during road construction

  • Cross on hill above town and view of Antigua

  • Main square: Cathedral

  • Main square: Govenment Palace

  • Main square: Commercial buildings

  • Giants in front of Cathedral for Corpus Christi celebrations

  • Giants dancing

  • Giants dancing with marimba band

  • Traditional fife and drum for small religious procession

  • Corpus Christi procession brass band

  • Woman's procession

  • Procession with insence

  • Group of Maya visiting the city, in main plaza buying ice-cream

  • Fountain in main square

  • Street on main square on market day

  • Old arch connecting Convent buildings

  • Sculptural details in ruins of colonial dome

  • La Merced Church, front facade

  • La Merced panorama

  • La Merced courtyard fountain

  • La Merced bell tower

  • Residential patio seen from belfry

  • Home interior patio

  • Church facade

  • Facade detail

  • street scene

  • Worshippers at the crypt of Blessed Hermano Pedro

  • Relgious grotto

  • Arched portico, Government palace

  • Colonial ruins

  • Colonial ruins, detail

  • More ruins from the great earthquake of 1776

  • Main square, view towards Volcán de Agua

  • 17th century decorated doorway

  • Doorway detail dated 1694

  • Street scene with bicycle and Volcán de Agua

  • Holy Week 1980: Temporary carpets are constructed in the streets before religious processions

  • Most of the Holy Week street carpets are made of colored sawdust

  • Making a carpet with a butterfly pattern

  • Colored sawdust carpet depicting macaws

  • Stork pattern

  • Carpet in a pseudo-Pre-Columbian Maya pattern

  • Street carpet with pine needles

  • carpet after procession passes over

  • Women carrying Saint float

  • Men carrying Saint float

  • Holy Week floats enter La Merced Church

  • Passion procession participants

  • Top of Jesus float passes by church facade

  • Huge Jesus float arrives at La Merced Chruch

  • Procession at La Merced

  • Procession of women

  • Profile of Saint against church facade

  • Saints

  • child dressed as angel for Holy Week

  • Fountain in central park

  • English: Street scene, Antigua Guatemala, with Vulcan de Agua in background, 1979
  • English: Old convent arch with Vulcan de Agua in background, Antigua Guatemala, 1979
  • English: front fascade of Church of La Merced, Antigua Guatemala, 1979
  • English: A building in Antigua Guatemala, 1980

  • Santa Catalina arch

  • Old public fountain

  • Crypt in cathedral

  • La Merced church

  • Cathedral

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