Private Tour: Antigua Guatemala Guided Walking

Antigua Guatemala, Once the third largest city in all of Spanish Colonial America and for 200 years the capital of Guatemala, it is today a peaceful, beautiful and partially restored colonial city. Cobblestone streets wind through the city of majestic churches and monasteries.

You will be picked up at your hotel in Antigua Guatemala to meet our local guide to begin your soft walking of approximately 3 hours below a brief summary of what to expect on your way.

The Convent of Santo Domingo is a ruined monastery in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. Its history goes back to 1538 when the Dominicans arrived in Guatemala. It had 2 towers with 10 bells. The convent was completely destroyed in 1773 by the Santa Marta earthquakes and now part of its ruins have been transformed into a Hotel

Continue visit the museums of Casa Santo Domingo.

COLONIAL MUSEUM: The Colonial Museum contains works produced during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and the beginning of the 19th century.

ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM: It contains ceramic and stone objects that mostly correspond to the Classic period (200-900 BC) of the Mayan culture.

PRE-COLOMBINE ART MUSEUM AND MODERN GLASS: It contains glass sculptures that harmoniously contrast with beautiful pre-Hispanic pieces of clay and stone.

MARCO AUGUSTO QUIROA ROOM AND ARTIST’S ROOM: Enclosure space in which works of art by distinguished national and foreign artists are exhibited.

SILVER MUSEUM: In this room you can see many silver objects from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

THE PHARMACY MUSEUM: It contains objects and furniture used in 19th century Guatemalan drugstores.

Continue our way we will visit the La Unión tank, which is one of the most representative laundries in this city, only the big houses had a place where they could be washed. For this reason, most of the inhabitants – housewives – went to public laundries. This was inaugurated on February 3, 1853.

Central Park surrounded by the traditional grid pattern used frequently in urban planning in the Spanish colonies. The park is surrounded by the Palace of the General Captains, the Town Hall, the Cathedral of San Jose and the Trade Portal.

Here in the park, we will also find the Las Sirenas fountain. This fountain has a traditional oral where the Count of La Gomera ordered to build the fountain in memory of his daughters, who in giving birth did not want to breastfeed their children for what the count ordered To tie his daughters to a trunk in the center of a waterhole, where they died of thirst and hunger.

Santa Catalina Arch, built to connect the nuns between cloisters to avoid being seen due to the votes that the religious who belonged to that Order took, After the earthquakes of 1773, the arch became important due to the arrangements that were made. These arrangements included the construction of a turret and the inclusion of a Lamy Amp Lacroix watch of French origin.

La Merced  Church of Guatemalan Ultrabaroque style, this temple has two bell towers. On the facade of the church, in its upper part is a sculpture of San Pedro Nolasco, founder of the Mercedarian Order.