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Paseo de Tacón_Avenida Carlos III, La Habana, 1952 The Paseo de Tacón, or Paseo Militar, was created by the Captain General ( Spanish : Capitanía General de Cuba ) Miguel Tacón y Rosique (1834–1838) [ a ] who promoted the reform of the “road” that, starting from the calles of San Luis de Gonzaga (Reina) [ b ] and Belascoáin ...
Senator Alfredo Hornedo Suárez, of the Patido Liberal. Owner of the Mercado Unico, the Mercado de Carlos III, the Casino Deportivo, and the news papers El Pais, Excelsior, el Sol, El Crisol. He also built the Blanquita Theater, the Hotel Rosita Hornedo, and the Riomar Building, and was the owner of several radio stations.
Residence of the Captains General in Quinta de los Molinos in the decades of 1850-1870, Havana, Cuba.. The Quinta de Los Molinos was the location where the Captaincy General of Cuba maintained their summer residence in the 1850s - 1870s.
In 1957, Hornedo built the Rosita De Hornedo building. He also owned the newspapers El País on Calle Galiano, moved to Calle Reina, the Excélsior newspaper, and the Mercado Único of La Habana, named the building after his second wife, Rosita Almanza; he built other properties in the area including the larger (201 apartments) Riomar Building, [6] [b] also by the architect Cristóbal ...
Centro Habana is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba. A chinatown - Barrio Chino - is also located in this district. It is a smaller municipality of Havana, and it has the highest population density .
Sears expanded into Latin America and Spain starting with a small store in Downtown Havana, Cuba in 1942. Sears opened its first store in Mexico City in 1947; the Mexican stores would later spin off into Sears Mexico, now owned by billionaire Carlos Slim's Grupo Sanborns, which by the end of 2022 operated 97 stores across Mexico.
Established in the early 1520s in Habana Vieja, the Plaza de las Armas was designed to serve as the original main square for the military and government in Havana. [2] As Spanish custom when they laid out a new town, open space was reserved for a public square when the city was founded in 1519. [3]
El Encanto was the largest department store in Cuba, with five retail storeys, originally built in 1888, and situated on the corner of Galiano and San Rafael in Old Havana. Before the Cuban Revolution , it had been privately owned, but in 1959 it was nationalized.