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In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town. It had a monastery called El Carmen, founded in 1620 (this was the second hermitage).The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua. [2]
Carlos III fountain and St. James Cathedral in Guatemala City in the 1875. Photograph by Eadweard Muybridge. It did not take long for the authorities to replace rebel archbishop Cortés y Larraz, who left in favor of Cayetano Francos y Monroy, who arrived in late 1779 and took over the building projects of the religious settlements in the new ...
Category: Landmarks in Guatemala. 1 language. ... Historic sites in Guatemala (2 C) M. Monuments and memorials in Guatemala (1 C, 3 P) T. Towers in Guatemala (1 C, 1 P)
Parish of San José (Spanish: Catedral de San José), located in the city of Antigua Guatemala, is part of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala and is located in a section of the old Primate Cathedral of Antigua Guatemala, which was destroyed by the 1773 Guatemala earthquakes. The first construction of the cathedral began in 1545 with the ...
Santa Catalina Arch. The Santa Catalina Arch is one of the distinguishable landmarks in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, located on 5th Avenue North. [1] Built in the 17th century, it originally connected the Santa Catalina convent to a school, allowing the cloistered nuns to pass from one building to the other without going out on the street.
In 1801, the confraternity of Jesús Nazareno de la Merced moved the altarpiece of the image to the new city, although the church had not yet been built. Until 1813, when the Mercedarian church was inaugurated in the new city, the rest of the altarpieces were sent to Nueva Guatemala, but the old church continued to function as a parish.
The Almolonga Valley site is now known as Ciudad Vieja ("Old City"). [3] Panchoy – Antigua Guatemala In 1543, Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala was once again refounded, this time at Panchoy. The new city survived as the capital of colonial Guatemala through the rest of the 16th century, the 17th century, and most of the 18th century ...
Antigua Guatemala means "Old Guatemala" and was the third capital of Guatemala, formerly called "Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala". The first capital of Guatemala was founded on the site of a Kaqchikel -Maya city, named Iximche , on Monday, July 25, 1524—the day of Saint James—and therefore named Ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros ...