I have said before that the amount of walking I do here is amamzing and today I wore Michael out proving my point. We toured a bunch of ruins and still could have kept going to more if we hadn't run out of steam.
The Spanish spent about 250 years building elaborate churches in Antigua. They had to abandon the city in the late 1770's after an earthquake demolished everything. There are ruins on practically every corner. It is overwhelming to think about what they had to do to get these churches built...and about the poor Mayans who did all the labor and died tourtureous death if they refused to bow to the Spanish church.
The pictures are from the Hotel Santo Domingo Museum which was really cool to finally see. I haven't mentioned that the modern Guatemalan art I have seen has been just incredible...Museum quality stuff that I would die to purchase if I only had thousands of dollars in discretionary funds. Oh well, 2 days to go before we leave and still so much to do.
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