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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 story: 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.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
This is a self-guided audio walking tour with no live guide. Begin at the Obelisco, at the south end of Avenida La Reforma. Open the Roamer app, start the tour, and walk at your own pace. You can begin at any time of day.
The tour ends at the Berlin Wall monument in Plaza Berlín, at the north end of Avenida Las Américas in Zona 14, where three original slabs of the Berlin Wall stand. From here you are in a walkable district with cafes and transport nearby.
Itinerary
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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.
Admission ticket free -
(Pass by)
An equestrian statue of Simón Bolívar, donated by Venezuela in 1990, honouring the liberator who freed six nations and died owning nothing.
Admission ticket free -
(Pass by)
Francisco de Paula Santander, the Man of Laws, who built nations through constitutions while Bolívar built them through force.
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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.
Admission ticket free -
(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.
Admission ticket free -
(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.
Admission ticket free -
(Pass by)
José Matías Delgado, the priest who rang a bell for independence in 1811.
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(Pass by)
Bernardo O'Higgins, half Irish and half Chilean, the illegitimate son of a Spanish viceroy who overthrew the system his father governed.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(Pass by)
Ramón Castilla, who served in Bolívar's army and later, as president, abolished slavery in Peru.
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(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.
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(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 story on the boulevard.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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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.
Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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