Cuando la ciudad tiene imagen: cronología del traslado de la ciudad de Guatemala, 1773-1776

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  • Ricardo Sáenz Bravo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.5967

Abstract

The paper proposes the analysis of the transfer of Guatemala City from 1773 to 1776, due to the earthquakes in the Panchoy Valley, La Antigua Guatemala today. By identifying this historical fact, very unique in its kind, it is interpreted how the system of government, within the ideological context of his time monarchist, formed the new city in a socio-political scheme that allowed them to promote a reorganization of politic and social classes, in a new urban fabric, in order to the reposition of the political system, and to project the image of the city needed, and also to take the opportunity to weaken the ecclesiastical economic power, through the transfer of the city, for the realization of social restructuring.

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Sede Lisboa