Historic Center — Who Rebuilt This City
Walk six stops from a bishop's murder site to a church rebuilt by its own people. Every wall in this square mile is an argument about who this city belongs to.
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San Sebastián: The Truth-Teller
Tour Stops (6) · First 2 free
San Sebastián: The Truth-Teller
The parish house where Bishop Gerardi was murdered two days after presenting Guatemala's truth commission report.
Paseo de la Sexta: The Oligarch's Street
The most renamed avenue in Guatemala — five names in 250 years — pedestrianised by the mayor who signed peace, at the cost of 680 displaced vendors.
Catedral Metropolitana: The Institution Rebuilds
Eighty-five years to build, destroyed and rebuilt through three major earthquakes, now bearing the names of the disappeared on its entrance pillars.
Plaza de la Constitución / Palacio Nacional: The Dictator's Monument
Kilometre Zero of Guatemala — a dictator's palace built with prison labour, seized by fifty thousand people, bombed, then used to sign peace.
Mercado Central: The Invisible Economy
An underground market serving forty thousand people daily, built on a cemetery, built on the ruins of a Maya trading city — invisible from the street by design.
Iglesia de San Francisco: The People Rebuild
A church rebuilt by its own congregation after every earthquake, preserving a tradition the institutional church tried to abolish — now UNESCO-protected.
2 stops free · Full tour $2.99