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It was called the Jewish Society of Eastern Cuba (Spanish: Sociedad Union Israelita de Oriente de Cuba) and was composed mainly of Sephardic Jews from Turkey. In 1939, the congregation built its first synagogue, called the Synagogue of Santiago de Cuba (Spanish: Sinagoga de Santiago de Cuba). Ashkenazi Jews arrived from Poland during World War ...
Santiago de Cuba in 1856 by Edouard Laplante and Leonardo Barañano. Firestone Library, Princeton University. [5] 1859 watercolor of Santiago de Cuba's plains by British geologist James Gay Sawkins. Santiago de Cuba was the seventh village founded by Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar on 25 July 1515. The settlement was destroyed ...
Santiago de Cuba Province is the second most populated province in the island of Cuba. The largest city Santiago de Cuba is the main administrative center. Other large cities include Palma Soriano , Contramaestre , San Luis and Songo-La Maya .
Museo E. Bacardi, Central Hall, Santiago de Cuba. It was established in 1899 by its founder and famous rum distiller Emilio Bacardi Moreau, in Santiago de Cuba. [1] Situated on Calle Pío Rosada, between Calles Heredia and Aguilera, it is Santiago de Cuba's oldest museum.
Prior to elevation as a archdiocese, the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Seville in Spain until 12 February 1546 when it became a suffragan of the Diocese of Santo Domingo (now Archdiocese of Santo Domingo) in the Dominican Republic. In 1803, the see was elevated to an archdiocese.
The first church in Santiago was built in 1514, at the beginning of the Spanish colonization of Cuba, and dedicated to Saint Catherine. This was a small, rudimentary chapel on a hill, the future site of the provincial prison. In 1522, this parish church, called Ermita de Santa Catalina, was elevated to the status of cathedral by Pope Adrian VI ...
Estadio Guillermón Moncada is a multi-use stadium in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. [citation needed] It is the second largest baseball stadium in Cuba and comfortably seats 25,000 spectators. The stadium was inaugurated on February 24, 1964. It is a project of the Architect Emilio Castro.
The wreck of Vizcaya after the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. One of Vizcaya ′s 11-inch (279-mm) gun turrets in a photograph taken aboard her wreck after the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. By the beginning of July 1898, that drive threatened to capture Santiago de Cuba, and Cervera decided that his squadron's only hope was to try to escape into the ...