Semana Santa photo album
From 2013: Driving to Antigua from the airport, our cab driver told Olivia and me that the most spectacular Semana Santa carpets could be seen on a street on Antigua’s north end called Calle Ancha. The earlier we arrived on Good Friday morning, he said, the better: teams of artists would have started construction midnight on Holy Thursday. Five […]
A lesson in Semana Santa carpet making
As you probably know, in the Christian calendar, Lent consists of the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter, with the final days known as Holy Week–Semana Santa in Spanish. And few place in the world celebrate Semana Santa in as spectacular a fashion as Guatemala. Tens of thousands of people from across Guatemala and […]