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Palacio de los Capitanes Generales. Havana, Cuba_Floor Plan. The building is in the Cuban Baroque style. It is a thick-walled square building, little altered from the time of its original construction. The front of the building has an arcade with arches supported by columns and a pavement made from china pelona.
Photograph Michael Dweck standing in front of the Fototeca de Cuba in Havan. Fototeca de Cuba is Cuba's national archive dedicated to photography and visual culture in the country.
Old Havana (Spanish: La Habana Vieja) is the city-center (downtown) and one of the 15 municipalities (or boroughs) forming Havana, Cuba. It has the second highest population density in the city and contains the core of the original city of Havana. The positions of the original Havana city walls are the modern boundaries of Old Havana.
The Piazza at Havana by Dominic Serres.The plaza during British occupation in 1762. The plaza emerged in 1559 and was originally called Plaza Nueva (New Square). It was built as a popular alternative to Plaza de Armas, the military and government main center, the name changed when another important square emerged in town, the Plaza del Santo Cristo.
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana) in Havana, Cuba is a museum of fine arts that exhibits Cuban art collections from the colonial times up to contemporary generations.
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.
La Habana: 1982 204; iv, v (cultural) Havana was founded in 1519 by Spanish colonists, growing to become one of the Caribbean's primary shipbuilding centers by the 17th century. The old city was built in the Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Historical landmarks in Old Havana include La Cabaña, the Cathedral of Havana and the Great Theatre of ...
1787 – Roman Catholic diocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana established. [12] 1789 – Bishopric established. [1] 1791 – Population: 51,307. [1] 1792 Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País de la Habana established. [7] Palace built. [1] 1794 Consulado (merchant guild) established. [13] La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana ...