Antigua - Casa Popenoe

This 17th C colonial house offers the opportunity to experience the life of the Spanish colonial elite who once inhabited it.

In ruins for 150 years, the house was painstakingly restored in the 1930s by Dr. Wilson Popenoe, chief agronomist for the United Fruit Company, who furnished the house with period antiques, a complete colonial kitchen, bath and laundry areas.

The home presents massive walls to the public but the interior is graced with flowered patios surrounded by shaded corridors. A large collection of paintings is contained within.