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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 [...]

La Antigua Guatemala has been named the top city overall in the Wanderlust Travel Awards 2009, based on the votes of some 3,000 travelers. Wanderlust is a leading magazine for adventure travelers in the United Kingdom.
Placing second was Kyoto, Japan, followed by Boston, USA. The previous first-place destination, Luang Prabang, Laos, was knocked down [...]

That which we call La Antigua Guatemala by any other name would enchant us just the same
This is a BIG controversy—this is a petty controversy. For reasons unknown, many people within the English-speaking community do not use the official name La Antigua Guatemala. Maybe it’s because the formal name is too long, or the person [...]

The Story of the Ruins of San Jerónimo
The spacious, bright and well-kept flowered lawn of the San Jerónimo ruins at the north end of Alameda Santa Lucía welcomes visitors to the site of a school that functioned barely four years and closed with five students. In Colonial Architecture of Antigua, Sidney Markman wrote, “Very little [...]

(in no particular order)
Dessert de la Casa
(sweet cinnamon-flavored nachos)
Monoloco
5a av. sur #6, interior 5
TRES LECHES
Quesos y Vinos
1a calle poniente #1
CAPPUCHINO PIE
Cafe Condesa
West side of Central Park, inside La Casa del Conde
TIRAMISU
Capt. Bry’s
El Pescador Italiano
3a av. norte #1-B
CHONGOS ZAMORANOS
Fridas
5a av. norte #29, Calle del Arco
SAJLAB 
(a fabulous Egyptian dessert)
Gaia
5a av. norte #36-A
MOLE DE PLÁTANO
La Fonda [...]

The Panchoy Valley is made up of several municipalities in the Guacalate River basin, including La Antigua, Jocotenango, Ciudad Vieja, Santo Domingo Xenacoj and Sumpango.
Have you ever wondered what La Antigua and its surrounding areas would be like 50 years from now? Most of the dreamers picture it as a prosperous area, full of culture [...]