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Antonio Palacios “Sancocho” tells when the trip from Antigua to the capital cost Q6.00, renting a house Q12.00 and 5 cents could buy six loaves; Don Tono, as he is affectionately called, and ran his ferrying tourists and antigüeños with them a wealth of stories taxi. That already completed 50 years of service.

“Life was very cute and miss the Antigua before when the mystique of Antiguan moved us to greet one bench to another shouting each his nickname by familiarity and confidence; custom that was inherited from parents to children“

says Don Antonio, who speaks Kaqchikel child and studied at the School Mariano Navarrete in Santa María de Jesús.

Talking to him is to enrich the mind and heart with the pictures painted with the stories of the city of his birth. Spend a few minutes each day to reading and among his favorite authors include Carlos Quintanilla Meza, Carlos Manuel Pellecer and Luis Cardoza y Aragón.

La Antigua is so big and mystical (not just in terms of territory) says. Leave the red taxi number 19 parked on the side of the Cathedral to go walking and continue learning every corner; discovering the charm of the city because he believes that:

“you have to be diligent with what is ours”.

Each edition will dedicate a space to tell us curiosities sharing Don Tone, and begin with the balconies of our city.

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