Inside the grounds of Hotel Casa Santo Domingo is the beautifully presented Paseo de los Museos or Museums Promenade. The route allows access to the most significant areas of the convent ruins including old burial crypts and ruined church. The complex of museums displays colonial religious art,...
Along the entire south side of Parque Central lies the first two-storey building in the city, Palacio de los Capitanes. 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 housed the police...
The church and convent ruins of Santo Domingo 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. However, during the 1773...
Surrounded by important buildings dating back from colonial times, this plaza is the main hangout for locals. It’s always packed on weekends and festivals when it is the scene for concerts, parades and processions. Mature trees, gardens and pathways lined with wooden benches radiate from a...
On the Calzada Santa Lucía, south of the market, stands the Monumento de Landivar. This large, white monument was built in 1953 in honor of Rafael Landivar, the great poet of colonial America who died in 1793. His ashes rest inside. Not open to the public, the monument is surrounded by gardens...