Guatemala City Berlin Plaza Self Guided Walking Tour

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3h
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Multiple languages

Overview

Walk one of Guatemala City's most surprising streets on your own schedule. No group, no guide, no one to keep pace with.

Avenida Las Américas is lined with the monuments each nation of the Americas sent. Together they tell one storey: a country still arguing with itself about what freedom means.

Along the way: a dictator's pillar crowned with a democrat's eternal flame, a flag you can see the sky through, and three original slabs of the Berlin Wall.

A self-guided audio walk in your phone's browser. No app, no ticket. Start whenever you like, pause on any bench, skip what you want, listen in English or Spanish. One booking covers your whole group.

A note on content: this walk deals honestly with dictatorship, political assassination, and armed conflict. The stories are told with care, but a few moments are heavy.

Flat, paved, no stairs, rated easy, about 3.5 km one way. Best with earbuds and daylight.

A museum with no walls and no closing time, yours to explore at your pace.

Activity location

Obelisco
- Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala

Meeting/Redemption Point

Obelisco
- Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala

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Dates

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Guatemala City Berlin Plaza Self Guided Walking Tour in Multilingual

3h
Opening hours: Wed 00:00-23:30
English

Languages available

Price details

€4.39 x 1 Traveller€4.39

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What's included, what's not

N/A
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Know before you book

- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transport options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
- This activity is provided by a private individual (a party not acting within their trade, business or profession). EU consumer law will not apply to your booking.

Activity itinerary

Avenida La Reforma (Pass by)

An 18-metre obelisk built by a dictator in 1935, later given an eternal flame by Guatemala's first democratic president. A monument where two visions of the country meet.

Plaza Costa Rica (Pass by)

An equestrian statue of Simón Bolívar, donated by Venezuela in 1990, honouring the liberator who freed six nations and died owning nothing.

Plaza Colombia (Pass by)

Francisco de Paula Santander, the Man of Laws, who built nations through constitutions while Bolívar built them through force.

Avenida De Las Americas (Pass by)

José Cecilio del Valle, who drafted Central America's Act of Independence but was never allowed to sign it, and won the presidency twice without serving a single day.

Plaza Argentina (Pass by)

The grandest plaza on the boulevard, holding the first monument Guatemala ever raised to a foreign citizen: Benito Juárez, a Zapotec orphan who defeated a European emperor.

Monumento Benito Juárez - Plaza Mexico (Pass by)

The grandest plaza on the boulevard, holding the first monument Guatemala ever raised to a foreign citizen: Benito Juárez, a Zapotec orphan who defeated a European emperor.

Plaza República de El Salvador (Pass by)

José Matías Delgado, the priest who rang a bell for independence in 1811.

Plaza Chile (Pass by)

Bernardo O'Higgins, half Irish and half Chilean, the illegitimate son of a Spanish viceroy who overthrew the system his father governed.

Plaza República de Nicaragua (Pass by)

he only plaza that broke from the Great Man portrait: an arch, a pyramid, a sphere, and a bust of Rubén Darío, the poet who remade the Spanish language.

Plaza República Dominicana (Pass by)

Juan Pablo Duarte, who founded a clandestine revolution in three-person cells and won independence from Haiti, then was exiled before he could govern.

Plaza Colón (Pass by)

The oldest monument on the boulevard, contracted in 1893 and moved three times. Across the Americas Columbus is being reconsidered. Guatemala City keeps its statue.

Plaza República de Perú (Pass by)

Ramón Castilla, who served in Bolívar's army and later, as president, abolished slavery in Peru.

Plaza Canadá (Pass by)

Every other country sent a portrait. Canada sent a human figure built of stacked stones, an Inukshuk, the only Indigenous art form on the entire boulevard.

Monumento a José Martí (Pass by)

José Martí lived in Guatemala City and fell in love with a Guatemalan woman. The poem he wrote for her is carved into the base of this monument, the most personal storey on the boulevard.

Plaza Uruguay (Pass by)

A brand-new bust, because the last one was stolen and Uruguay replaced it. It honours the leader who ordered land redistribution to the most unfortunate in 1815.

Plaza República del Ecuador (Pass by)

The plaza reinvented more times than any other. A stolen bust led to a mural, a new bust, and a literary garden. The answer to vandalism was to go bigger.

Monumento a Juan Pablo II (Pass by)

The sculptor who began the boulevard's art in 1935 completed it here in 1985: a statue of Pope John Paul II with a peace manifesto carved into its base during a civil war.

Plaza Berlin (Pass by)

Three original sections of the Berlin Wall at the end of the boulevard. After 130 years of arguing about freedom, proof that walls fall.

Location

Activity location

Obelisco
- Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala

Meeting/Redemption Point

Obelisco
- Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala

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