Miguel Ángel Asturias Cultural Center (National Theatre)

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“Guatemala’s most extraordinary building — architecture as sculpture, with the city at its feet.”

Artist Efraín Recinos’ masterpiece: a white-and-blue sculpture-theatre shaped like a reclining jaguar above the Civic Center. A Latin American brutalist icon, it offers guided tours and a panoramic city view.