Guatemala history, folklore and traditions
In October in San Lucas Sacatepequez celebrate our patron saint festivities in honor of St. Luke the Evangelist, cultural activities, sports and religious. Bring the girlfriend, wife, family, in-laws, friends or whoever you prefer, you come to enjoy entertainment, partying or simply to taste the ...
IDENTITY GUATEMALA By Darío Morán Guatemala as a country and as a nation should be thought as a rainbow of uncountable colors due to its too many riches, riches, which unfortunately not all guatemalans have acquainted and known very well. Our history, is a history of a nation which had to b ...
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Since the sixteenth century Mayan architecture has drawn the attention of the powerful West. Their pyramids, temples and palaces had been abandoned long ago, but the jungle and the lack of information served as incentives for their first scholars. The materials that were disposed of the architects M ...
Mesoamerican group of indigenous people belonging to the family or mayense Mayan language, which traditionally have lived in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco and Chiapas, in most regions of Guatemala and Belize and Honduras. The people best known, the Maya itself, which gives its ...
The Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) explores the legends and mythology in pre-Columbian to understand the reality of indigenous life. His novel strong wind was cited in the speech of the Nobel Prize award, which was awarded for "his colorful writings deeply rooted in individualit ...
Instrument to Guatemalans that we give the name of indigenous and we find both in the city and in rural areas of the...
It's a bird that very few have been privileged to admire in all its splendor. The quetzal (Pharamachrus mocinno), st...
"Land of eternal spring, at the Centre for americas" Cathedral, Guatemala. The cathedral flanks one side of a c...
