Full-Day Tour: Colonial Antigua, Jade Factory and Textile Experience

Itinerary
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Pass By: Gray Line, Antigua 03001 Guatemala

You will be pick up in your hotel and transfer to Antigua Guatemala to start a day full of history, beautiful landscapes and walk on cobblestone streets, We will also enjoy an afternoon tour of the towns around Antigua and a macadamia farm.

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.


Stop At: Iglesia de La Merced, Antigua Guatemala

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.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Arco de Santa Catalina, Avenida Norte 5a, Antigua 03001 Guatemala

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.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: The Plaza Central Park, Plaza Mayor City Center, Antigua 03001 Guatemala

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.


Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes

Stop At: Tanque de la Union, Calle oriente 6a, Antigua 03001 Guatemala

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.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Iglesia de San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Agua Calientes, San Antonio 78239, Guatemala

We will continue visiting the surrounding villages, San Antonio Aguas Calientes town that is characterized by its elaborate weavings made in waist looms by women of the community in our visit to the market we can see how they make these textiles.

Duration: 50 minutes

Stop At: Church of Ciudad Vieja, Centro Civico, Ciudad Vieja 03012 Guatemala

We visit the towns of San Miguel Dueñas and Ciudad Vieja to learn about its history.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Valhalla Macadamia Farm, Guatemala

To end our tour we will visit a Macadamia farm where we will learn about the cultivation of macadamia nuts, their agroindustrial process and the reforestation project and relax with a facial massage with macadamia oil.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Pass By: Gray Line, Antigua 03001 Guatemala

At end of the tour, you’ll be transferred back to your hotel in Antigua.