Antigua Features

Antigua Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  Learn the native tongue: Antigua is one of the world's premier Spanish-study destinations. Just don't spend so much time hanging out with fellow... Read more

• Coffee? Macadamia Nuts?
  

  The northern Las Verapaces is the part of the country most associated with coffee, historically and culturally, but Guatemala Antigua gets rave... Read more

• Holy Week in Antigua
  

  Much of Latin America flees to the beach or the mountains for seven days of vacation during Holy Week (Semana Santa), the week preceding Easter... Read more

• Antigua's Volcanoes
  

  Four volcanoes make up this region's sector of a seismic spine that runs the width of Guatemala from the Mexican to Salvadoran borders, forming... Read more

• A Bell-Ringing Saint
  

  Guatemala points with pride and reverence to its very own saint, Pedro de San José Betancur (1626-67), a native of the Canary Islands... Read more

• All That Glitters
  

  Several jade shops and factories dot the streets east of Antigua's Parque Central. Although Guatemala's best-known gem is extracted in the eastern... Read more

• Earthquake!
  

  Throughout history, quakes large and small have ravaged Guatemala, a nation that forms part of the seismically active "Ring of Fire" encircling... Read more

• Something Old, Something New
  

  Antigua's colonial magnificence disappeared in one day in 1773 following a massive earthquake. With the move of the capital to nearby Guatemala... Read more