🇬🇹【4K 60fps】Antigua Guatemala ~ Walking Tour - Guatemala

The city of Antigua Guatemala is the capital of the department of Sacatepéquez , Guatemala . Located approximately 25 kilometers west of Guatemala City , it is a colonial city surrounded by volcanoes that has been preserved for centuries. This has made it one of the main tourist destinations in the country and, therefore, one of the most important cities .

During the viceregal era it was known as Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala . It was the capital of the Captaincy General of Guatemala , between 1541 and 1776, the year in which the capital was moved to the Ermita Valley after the Santa Marta earthquakes ruined the city for the third time in the same century. 4 This fact was used by the civil authorities as an excuse to weaken the ecclesiastical authorities - following the recommendations of the Bourbon Reforms undertaken by the Spanish crown in the second half of the 18th century - 5 forcing the regular orders to move from their majestic convents to fragile temporary structures in the new city. 6

After the transfer, the city was called " Ruined Guatemala ", " Ancient Santiago de Guatemala " and the " Ancient City ". It was abandoned by all the royal and municipal authorities, and in 1784 by the last two parishes: Candelaria and Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, also being left without ecclesiastical authorities. 7 A few years later, Archbishop Cayetano Francos y Monroy authorized the operation of three interim parishes that were named after their predecessors: San Sebastián, Candelaria and Los Remedios, where the largest number of works of religious art that remained in the city were kept. Antigua Guatemala since that period. 8

After the Independence of Central America , in 1821, Antigua recovered the category of city and was named the head of the department of Sacatepéquez . 9 Likewise, the State of Guatemala established circuits and districts for the application of justice through jury trials in 1825, and Antigua Guatemala was assigned as the headquarters of the homonymous circuit in district No. 8 ( Sacatepéquez ). 10

The city was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. 11 ​12

In the 21st century, it is an important Guatemalan tourist destination for its well-preserved Spanish Baroque architecture with New World Baroque facades , as well as a large number of ruins of Catholic churches , even after the severe damage its structures suffered from abandonment. in which they were between 1776 and 1940 4 ​13​ and by the earthquakes of 1874, 14​ of 1917 13​ and 1976. 15​ It is also recognized for the solemn Holy Week processions , which have been held annually since before the transfer from the capital to New Guatemala. 16 According to the official census of 2018, it has a population of 46,054 inhabitants. 17

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