martes, 1 de diciembre de 2009

Travel Guatemala



Alive Museum in Sololá, Guatemala!!

Last 18th of November, was the inaguration of the “Museo Vivo de Sololá”, the opening was held by a group of artisans of the Region. Solola is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital of the departament of Solola and the administrative seat of Solola municipality.

The name is a hispanicized form of its pre-Columbian name, one spelling variant of which is T'zol'joly'a. The urban center has about 14,000 people, but the municipality also includes 4 village communities -Los Encuentros, El Tablón, San Jorge la Laguna, and Argueta- as well as 59 smaller rural communities.

The presentation, of the museum started with the narration of all the history of Sololá by Abner Chay, who is native of Panajachel, Sololá and studies at the UVG, university. There was a parade of all the indigenous native suits of the región, and each native woman speaker in their native language. The man of solola ususally wear the

The presentation ended with “La Pedida” that is one of the tradition that is being lost by the natives, in this show, they represented how the customs are held in the town, there are three “pedidas” in each one the fiance needs to give a lot of groceries and fruits to the new family he will be part of.

After the three “pedidas” the father decides how many years he needs to work for him………….

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