Antigua Photo Series: Ruins

This is the church behind the main cathedral, joined to that which it was once part. The thing in Antigua, because of the volcanic activity and the earthquakes that come with it, is that almost all the buildings are in various states of repair, disrepair, and use.

The great thing about Antigua, as part of this, is that it also had the priviledge of being what the Spaniards thought would become the colonial capital of the Americas. So you have a relatively small city, that never became a large, polluted, crime ridden modern one, that has been preserved in a state of ruin.