5a Avenida Norte Leading to Santa Catalina Arch, Antigua

Yellow Santa Catalina Arch with clock tower stands at the end of a cobblestone street lined with colonial buildings in Antigua, Guatemala.
Yellow Santa Catalina Arch with clock tower stands at the end of a cobblestone street lined with colonial buildings in Antigua, Guatemala.

Santa Catalina Arch spans 5a Avenida Norte in Antigua Guatemala, built around 1690 as a covered passage for the Convento de Santa Catalina Virgen y Mártir so cloistered nuns could cross between the convent's two buildings without appearing in public. The convent closed after the 1773 Santa Marta earthquake, but the arch survived and received its clock in the 19th century. Volcán de Agua rises in line with the passage, a view that has made the corridor one of the most ed streets in the city.

Taken February 2020

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