Description
A la Carta Tours offers eight creative walking tours that provide a wonderful cultural insight into beautiful colonial city. A La Carta specializes in giving tourists the chance to choose what kind of walking tour they would like based on their interest. Antigua`s culture is very rich and can be discovered in different ways. A La Carta tour guides are fully bilingual (English-Spanish) and certified by Inguat (Guatemala’s tourism institute).

Each tour lasts 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Tour 1: Antigua from the Terraces
Explanatory trip of this beautiful city from four strategic points situated on terraces to illustrate from high above four different aspects of Antigua Guatemala:

The historical (foundation, settlement, colonial period, relocation and independence), the artistic (baroque, Antigua artists, artistic treasures), the religious (Saint Hermano Pedro, main Catholic religious orders during colonial times, and the cultural (writers, intellectuals, Universidad San Carlos, Royal Mint, popular arts).

COST: US$20

Tour 2: Shopping in Antigua
Trip through Antigua to see stores specialized in quality and design.
Establishments accept credit cards, US currency exchange and delivery to the Hotel:

Textiles, handicrafts, decoration, furniture, candies, gifts and jewelry.

COST: US$14

Tour 3: Guatemalan Art
Meant for art lovers who wish to see a sample of Guatemalan art production in different techniques, known and up-an-coming artists.

There are visits to different galleries and cultural centers in Antigua to acquire an overview of Guatemalan art and its different styles: Proyecto Cultural El Sitio, Galería Wer, Galería Antigua and Museo Colonial.

COST: US$26

Tour 4: Local Gastronomy and Herbolary
The best way to know a country is through its cuisine. This tour presents a general menu of traditional Antigua products and recipes with the guarantee that the ingredients and preparation is supervised: lunch buffet, sweet snack and typical beverage are included. This trip begins in the market to try typical fruits like: paterna, carambola (starfruit), zapote (custard apple), guanaba (guanabana), anona (soursop), agguacate (avocado); vegetables: huisquil (mango squash), güicoy (pumpkin); variety of chilies, chiltepe, chipilín and loroco; and medicine herbs: verdolaga (purslane), uña de gato (cat’s claw).

COST: US$39

Tour 5: Earthquakes-Eruptions
Visit to different architectural sites so that visitors may feel what the telluric disasters that have characterized Antigua’s history have been like:

Vulcanologic and seismic explanations that help us understand the peculiar geographic idiosyncrasy of Antigua and its repercussion on the lives and culture of its inhabitants: aseismic baroque, historical crops.

Reading of historical texts of the protagonists of these tragedies.

COST: US$26

Tour 6: Spiritual City
Antigua holds the title of spiritual city due to its places for retreat and religious celebration. Holy Week is internationally renowned and attracts visitors from all over the world.

The tour includes visits to The Sepulcher of Saint Hermano Pedro, first Central American saint, Museum and adjacent ruins, Capuchins Convent, and the Cathedral of San José and visit to the crypt.

COST: US$26

Tour 7: Photography Tour
Explanatory trip and Advice for the best pictures. The tour includes a visit to:

+ Historical monuments: Churches, palaces, fountains and stone wall carvings, general and detailed views.
+ Urban landscapes: from terraces, rooftops and privileged places
+ Gallery of persons: people in the park and at the market
+ Green House: The city of perpetual roses

COST: US$20

Tour 8: Walk through Museums
+ Walk through the Museums: Religious, glass, modern art, pre Hispanic, pharmacy, handicrafts and popular arts.
+ Arms Museum: weapon and historical objects collections.

COST: US$ 26



A La Carta Tours - Antigua, Guatemala