Antigua Guatemala
La Antigua Guatemala was the colonial Spanish capital of Central America. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is perhaps Guatemala's most popular tourist destination.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 46,100 residents
- Description: city in the central highlands of Guatemala
- Also known as: “Antigua”, “la Antigua”, “Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala”, and “The Most Noble and Most Loyal City of Santiago of the Knights of Goathemala”
Places of Interest
Highlights include iglesia de La Merced and Iglesia de San Francisco.
iglesia de La Merced
Church
Photo: MrPanyGoff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church and Convent of La Merced is a Catholic church located in the city of Antigua Guatemala in Guatemala. The architect Juan de Dios Estrada was in charge of its construction from 1749. The church was inaugurated in 1767.
Iglesia de San Francisco
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
San Francisco el Grande is a church in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala and one of the sanctuaries most frequented by the local population because of the shrine of Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur.
Antigua Guatemala
- Categories: municipality of Guatemala and locality
- Location: Sacatepéquez Department, Central Highlands, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
14.5568° or 14° 33′ 24″ northLongitude
-90.7337° or 90° 44′ 1″ westPopulation
46,100Elevation
1,583 metres (5,194 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 602914594OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Antigua Guatemala” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أنتيغوا غواتيمالا”
- Arabic: “انتيغوا غواتيمالا”
- Armenian: “Անտիգուա Գվատեմալա”
- Asturian: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Bashkir: “Антигуа-Гуатемала”
- Basque: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Belarusian: “Антыгуа-Гватэмала”
- Bengali: “অ্যান্টিগুয়া গুয়াতেমালা”
- Bulgarian: “Антигуа Гватемала”
- Burmese: “အန်တီဂွါ ဂွါတီမာလာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Cebuano: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Cebuano: “Municipio de Antigua”
- Chinese: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Chinese: “安地瓜”
- Chinese: “安提瓜”
- Chinese: “安提瓜危地马拉”
- Chinese: “旧危地马拉”
- Croatian: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Czech: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Czech: “Antigua”
- Danish: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Dutch: “Antigua Guatemala (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Dutch: “Antigua”
- Egyptian Arabic: “انتيجوا جواتيمالا”
- Esperanto: “Antigua”
- Esperanto: “Antikva Gvatemalo”
- Finnish: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Finnish: “Antigua”
- French: “Antigua Guatemala”
- French: “Antigua”
- Galician: “Antiga Guatemala”
- Galician: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Georgian: “ანტიგუა გვატემალა”
- Georgian: “ანტიგუა-გვატემალა”
- German: “Alt-Guatemala”
- German: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Greek: “Αντίγκουα Γουατεμάλα”
- Greek: “Αντίγουα Γουατεμάλα”
- Gujarati: “એન્ટિગુઆ ગ્વાટેમાલા”
- Hebrew: “אנטיגואה גואטמלה”
- Hindi: “एंटीगुआ ग्वाटेमाला”
- Hungarian: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Indonesian: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Italian: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Italian: “Antigua”
- Japanese: “アンティグア・グアテマラ”
- Japanese: “アンティグア”
- Kannada: “ಆಂಟಿಗುವಾ ಗ್ವಾಟೆಮಾಲಾ”
- Kirghiz: “Антигуа-Гуатемала”
- Korean: “안티과과테말라”
- Ladino: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Latin: “Antiqua Guatimalia”
- Latvian: “Antigva”
- Lithuanian: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Lithuanian: “Antigva Gvatemala”
- Lithuanian: “Antigva”
- Lithuanian: “Gvatemalos Antigva”
- Lithuanian: “La Antigva”
- Malay: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Malayalam: “ആൻറിഗ്വ ഗ്വാട്ടിമാല”
- Marathi: “अँटिगा ग्वाटेमाला”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Mingrelian: “ანტიგუა-გვატემალა”
- Moksha: “Антигуа Гватэмала”
- Northern Sami: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Norwegian: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Persian: “آنتیگوا گواتمالا”
- Polish: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Portuguese: “Antiga Guatemala”
- Portuguese: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Portuguese: “Antigua”
- Portuguese: “La Antigua”
- Portuguese: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala”
- Romanian: “Antigua, Guatemala”
- Romanian: “Antigua”
- Russian: “Антигуа-Гватемала”
- Russian: “Антигуа-Гуатемала”
- Russian: “Ла-Антигуа”
- Russian: “Старая Гватемала”
- Scots: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Serbian: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Serbian: “Antigva Gvatemala”
- Serbian: “Антигва Гватемала”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Sinhala: “ඇන්ටිගුවා ගෝතමාලා”
- Slovak: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Slovenian: “Antigua Gvatemala”
- Spanish: “Antigua ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala”
- Spanish: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Spanish: “Antigua Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros de Goathemala”
- Spanish: “Antigua”
- Spanish: “Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros”
- Spanish: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala”
- Swedish: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Swedish: “Antigua”
- Swedish: “Municipio de Antigua”
- Tamil: “ஆன்டிகுவா குவாத்தமாலா”
- Telugu: “ఆంటిగువ గ్వాటేమాల”
- Thai: “อันติกัวกัวเตมาลา”
- Turkish: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Ukrainian: “Антигуа-Гватемала”
- Ukrainian: “Антіґуа-Ґватемала”
- Urdu: “انتیجوا جواتیمالا”
- Uzbek: “Antigua (shahar)”
- Uzbek: “Antigua”
- Vietnamese: “Antigua Guatemala”
- Vietnamese: “Santiago de los Caballeros”
- Waray (Philippines): “Antigua Guatemala”
- “Huehcāuh Cuauhtēmallān”
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