Source: WTL© digital photograph taken on site in Antigua, Guatemala.
Comments: This is the Palacio de los Capitanes (Palace of the Captains General). The Captains General were the governors of Guatemala under the Virrey de Nueva España (Viceroy of New Spain; i.e., Mexico and most of Central America) during the colonial period. Begun in 1557 in the Renaissance architectural style, it was destroyed by the 1773 earthquake and subsequently reconstructed in a combination Renaissance and Neoclassical style. It was the seat of Spanish viceregal governmental power from Chiapas in southern Mexico to the Costa Rica-Panamá border (where Colombia and South America started in those days). Nowadays, it houses Guatemala's tourism office, INGUAT, and the Sacatepéquez police department. Incidentally, it is famous for its 27 arches on the ground floor and the first floor (la planta baja y la primera planta).