Hotel Museo Casa Santo Domingo Antigua Guatemala
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Hotel Museo Casa Santo Domingo Antigua Guatemala
3ra Calle Oriente No. 28 A, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Ranking: Hotel Museo Casa Santo Domingo Antigua Guatemala is ranked 5th out of 119 accommodation options available in Antigua Guatemala.
Classification: 3 Star Hotel
Hotel Museo Casa Santo Domingo offers 125 rooms with a variety of qualities and spaces, each one has a private bathroom, mini bar, chimney -most of them-, TV, cable, telephone, hair dryer, and safety deposit boxes. The following services are available for our guests every day... medical services, shoe shine, laundry, postal service, newspaper in specific areas, baggage storage, lost objects, ice, wake up calls, voice mails and taxis. Casa Santo Domingo opened its doors in June 1989. It*s localed 45kms from the capital city -50 minutes by car- and barely 10 minutes walking distance from the center of the city of La Antigua Guatemala. It has a tropical climate with an average annual temperature between 55 and 75 F. The warm months are from January up to April and from May up to October is the rainy season. La Antigua Guatemala was founded as Santiago de Guatemala, and was one of the most important Spanish cities of the New World. As seat of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, between the years 1543 and 1773, it was the political, religious, economic and cultural center of the region comprised between Chiapas and Costa Rica. Because of the destructive 1773 earthquake and the royal decrees of the same year the capital was transformed to the Valle de la Ermita and was founded as La Nueva Guatemala de la Asuncion and that is why the abandoned city was called *La Antigua Guatemala*. Besides getting to know the museums that are part of Casa Santo Domingo -Hotel-Museum- and the Chapel of our Lady of the Rosary -Mass every Sunday at 10 a. m.-
