Sensuous Guatemala: Semana Santa
Colorful carpets, thumping bands, pungent odors, rich tastes, thick crowds—through the Lenten season, into Palm Sunday and Semana Santa, Holy Week, all five senses are overwhelmed in every Guatemalan city and village, but nowhere more than in La Antigua Guatemala with its colonial traditions and frequent processions.
Intricate floral designs, forming colorful alfombras, carpets, are most [...]
Holy Week in Quetzaltenango
Colorful and solemn processions will traverse many streets in Central America during Semana Santa (Holy Week) with La Antigua Guatemala’s commemoration of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection among the most elaborate in the World.
Each church has its own procession featuring a massive float (anda) carried on the shoulders of as many as 80 colorfully-robed church members [...]
Semana Santa on the Lake: San Pedro La Laguna
written by Ana Flinder
Semana Santa is undoubtedly the most festive week of the year in Guatemala, celebrated with the most pomp and grandeur in La Antigua, and with deeply traditional ceremonies and indigenous style in Santiago Atitlán. Both of these destinations require advanced bookings for lodging but are not the only places to experience a Guatemalan [...]
Semana Santa on the Lake: Santiago Atitlán
written by Ana Flinder
Those of you who have your place to stay in La Antigua Guatemala for Semana Santa are sure to enjoy what is known as the second-biggest and most spectacular Semana Santa celebration in the world. (Second only to Sevilla, Spain, so they say.) And you know who you are. Because they also [...]
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