O que acontece em Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, ao longo do ano

Lotação máxima — Dry season, Christmas and New Year

Nada novo começa em janeiro.

Ainda em andamento: Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Christmas and New Year (16 Dez – 1 Jan)

Lotação máxima — Lenten processions, Dry season

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  Lenten processions

  15 Fev – 27 Mar · normalmentePáscoa e Semana SantaLotado

  Each Sunday of Lent one of the churches walks its own procession, with a velacion in the days before it. Slower and far less crowded than Holy Week, and the town is still yours in the evening. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Lenten processions, Semana Santa

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  Semana Santa

  29 Mar – 5 AbrPáscoa e Semana SantaLotadoReserve cedo

  Carpets of dyed sawdust are laid through the night and destroyed within minutes by the men carrying the andas over them. The centre closes to traffic, hotels are booked a year out, and Good Friday is when everything converges. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Lenten processions (15 Fev – 27 Mar (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Semana Santa, Dry season

Nada novo começa em abril.

Ainda em andamento: Semana Santa (29 Mar – 5 Abr), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Tranquilo — um dos piores meses em clima

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  Corpus Christi carpets

  21 Mai – 27 Jun · normalmenteFesta religiosa

  The Corpus Christi procession leaves the churches over streets laid with sawdust and flower carpets, the tradition Holy Week borrowed. Smaller and far less crowded than Semana Santa. Fonte ↗

Tranquilo — férias escolares em 3 dos países que mais mandam visitantes, um dos piores meses em clima

Nada novo começa em junho.

Ainda em andamento: Corpus Christi carpets (21 Mai – 27 Jun (normalmente))

Movimentado — Feast of Santiago, férias escolares em 3 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

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  Feast of Santiago

  1–25 Jul · normalmenteFesta religiosaLotado

  The city keeps its patron saint through July with processions, concerts and fireworks, building to 25 July, a local holiday when many offices shut. Fonte ↗

• Temporada

  Canícula, the midsummer dry spell

  1 Jul – 20 Ago · normalmenteEstação seca

  A few weeks in the middle of the rainy season when the afternoon storms ease off and skies clear, usually from early July into August. Its length varies a lot from year to year. Fonte ↗

Meia-estação — férias escolares em 3 dos países que mais mandam visitantes, um mês comum

Nada novo começa em agosto.

Ainda em andamento: Canícula, the midsummer dry spell (1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente))

Movimentado — Independence Day, férias escolares em 2 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

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  Independence Day

  14–15 SetFeriado nacionalLotado

  Torch relays run down the highway from the capital on the night of the 14th and school bands parade the next morning. Firecrackers from dawn, and most of the country is off work. Fonte ↗

Meia-estação — um mês comum

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  Month of the Rosary

  1–31 Out · normalmenteFesta religiosa

  October belongs to the Virgin of the Rosary at Santo Domingo: dawn processions and bells open the month, and her image is carried through the streets on the first Sunday. Fonte ↗

Lotação máxima — Dry season, Giant kites for All Saints

• Temporada

  Dry season

  1 Nov – 30 Abr · normalmenteLotado

  Mornings clear enough to watch Fuego smoke from the plaza, and cobbles dry enough to walk in anything. It is also the busiest half of the year, and the dust off the streets gets into everything.

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  Giant kites for All Saints

  1 NovFeriado nacionalLotado

  On 1 November the villages half an hour up the road, Sumpango and Santiago Sacatepequez, raise barriletes the height of a house over the cemetery while families eat fiambre among the graves. The buses out go early and full. Fonte ↗

Lotação máxima — Dry season, Christmas and New Year

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  Quema del Diablo

  7 DezLuzes e fogo

  At six in the evening on 7 December households burn their rubbish and a paper devil in the street to clear the year out. The smoke settles into the valley and stays there most of the night. Fonte ↗

• Feriado

  Christmas and New Year

  16 Dez – 1 JanNatal e Ano-NovoLotadoReserve cedo

  Posadas move house to house from 16 December, and Christmas Eve ends in a wall of firecrackers at midnight rather than a quiet mass. Families come up from the capital and fill the hotels. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))