City overview
Guatemala packs volcanoes, Maya cities and colonial streets into a country you can cross in a day. Antigua's cobbled centre sits beneath three volcanoes, Lake Atitlan fills a crater ringed by Maya villages, and Tikal's temples rise out of the Peten rainforest. The Jewish community numbers under a thousand people, almost all of them in Guatemala City, where an Orthodox congregation and a Sephardi society have both been established for a century. Three Chabad houses serve travellers - one in the capital, one in Antigua and one on the shore of Lake Atitlan - and each of them cooks. Kosher food, Shabbos meals and a minyan are all reachable on the standard Guatemala route.
Convento de las Capuchinas
Antigua · Per person: Guatemalan visitors Q5; Central American visitors Q15; foreign students Q20; other foreign visitors Q40.
The best-preserved convent ruin in Antigua, built in 1736, with a striking circular tower of nuns' cells around a central courtyard.
Time needed
1 hour
Hours
Open daily 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Tips
The vaulted lower chamber beneath the tower has extraordinary acoustics. Signage is mostly in Spanish.
Phone
+502 7873 4646Website
http://www.cnpag.com/Neighborhood
Antigua Guatemala
Activity providers
Kosher map of Antigua
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.