Located on the grounds of Hotel Casa Santo Domingo, the beautifully-presented Paseo de los Museos, or Museums Promenade, allows access to the most significant areas of the Santo Domingo convent ruins, including old burial crypts and the ruined church. The complex of museums...
This archaeological and anthropological museum has three rooms exhibiting historical pieces from Chichi and the surrounding region from the pre-Hispanic (1800BC – 1524AD), colonial (1524 – 1821AD) and modern (from 1940) periods. There are ceramic artifacts, pieces of jade, copies of the Pool...
The Palacio de los Capitanes, the first two-storey building in Antigua, lines the entire south side of the Parque Central. Built in 1558, for more than two centuries, it was the seat of the Spanish colonial government for most of Central America and Chiapas. More recently, it...
The ruins of Santo Domingo church and convent complex stand inside the grounds of the beautiful Hotel Casa Santo Domingo on the eastern edge of town. Between 1542 and 1666, the Dominican order built one of the largest, richest and most important convents in the colonial city....
Dating from the mid-16th century and then rebuilt in the 18thcentury, this atmospheric church is a great introduction to the fascinating highland blend of Catholicism and Mayan spiritualism. It is believed that the locals came to Catholicism when a resident Spanish priest was seen reading the Mayan...