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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 ...
Charles III (Spanish: Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; [a] 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza, as Charles I (1731–1735); King of Naples, as Charles VII; and King of Sicily, as Charles III (1735–1759).
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.
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.
Calles Águila y Dragones. Havana, Cuba. ca. 1920. The Little Priest, after whom the Parque El Curita is named, was born in Aguada de Pasajeros, in 1921, and for nine years prepared for the priesthood in the seminaries of San Basileo el Magno, in Santiago de Cuba, and San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary, in Havana.
A Spanish column of more than 700 men commanded by Colonel Demetrio Quirós Weyler was en route to Bayamo from Manzanillo [1] or Santiago de Cuba [2] to recapture the city from Carlos Manuel de Céspedes when ambushed by Máximo Gómez's forces, who were under the command of Donato Mármol, at Baire [], [3] near Contramaestre.
Recently dismissed Cuban Economy Minister Alejandro Gil Fernández is being investigated by police and the Attorney General’s Office after making “serious mistakes,” President Miguel Díaz ...
Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña (Fort of Saint Charles), colloquially known as La Cabaña, is an 18th-century fortress complex, the third-largest in the Americas, located on the elevated eastern side of the harbor entrance in Havana, Cuba. The fort rises above the 60-meter (200 ft) hilltop, along with Morro Castle.