Criterion (iii): Antigua Guatemala is one the earliest and outstanding examples of city planning in Latin America in which the basic grid plan, dating from 1543, has been maintained. Its religious, ...

Guatemala City, features the stately National Palace of Culture and the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Antigua, west of the capital, contains preserved Spanish colonial buildings.

Following restoration, many of the buildings became known ... of over 20 Mayan languages spoken in the city), Antigua is in the 22nd department of Guatemala. The Indigenous cultures and traditions ...