The Architecture Of “Calvarios” In Colonial Guatemala

Abstract

This paper discusses the temples called
“Calvarios” that emerged in villages in Guatemala in the Colonial Era, sacred places where the devotion of the Cross and other pious practices linked to the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ was important. This type of construction was initiated in Santiago Capital of the Kingdom of Guatemala initiated by the Franciscan Order took the Venerable Third Order a stronghold in realizing this work and keep it for many years. Capital of the Kingdom was distributed to other people having this kind of work at Calvary Esquipulas the greatest example of such temples in the history of Guatemala. In this work was used the historic method for the architecture colonial study of Guatemala.