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Located on the eastern side of the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana it is home to the Museum of the City of Havana (Museo de la Ciudad). It houses exhibitions of art and historical artefacts and many of the rooms are preserved with their original Colonial decoration. Considered the most notable Colonial Baroque building in Havana.
Borges used a catenary arch, similar to those used in the Tropicana.. There is a color differentiation at the Club Náutico between the blue, and smooth surface of the architectural covering of the arch and the white structure above.
Plaza de Vapor_entrance calle Dragones, Havana, Cuba. El Barrio Chino was Havana's Chinatown, located in the area of the Plaza de Vapor. It was once Latin America's largest Chinese community, [9] [10] [11] incorporated into the city by the early part of the 20th century.
The Hotel Habana Riviera by Iberostar, originally known as the Havana Riviera, is a historic resort hotel located on the Malecón waterfront boulevard in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. The hotel, which is managed by the Spanish Iberostar chain, was built in 1957 and still maintains its original 1950s style.
Casino Español de La Habana, commonly known as Casino Español or the Spanish Casino, was one of Havana's largest clubs. It was established in the 1860s by Spanish emigrants residing in Cuba as their sole recreational and social facility.
It is located on La loma de Soto above the harbour. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1982, the fort was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, along with other historic sites in Old Havana , because of the city's importance in the European conquest of the New World, its fortifications, and its unique architecture.
The museum was founded in 1961, with the collection of Julio Lobo, occupying a 1929 Florentine Renaissance style mansion "La Dolce Dimora", the home of an Italian-Cuban politician, Orestes Ferrara. The architects were Evelio Govantes and Félix Cabarrocas, whose also designed El Capitolio and the Casa de la Amistad on Paseo. [ 1 ]
Paseo del Prado is a street and promenade in Havana, Cuba, near the location of the old city wall, and the division between Centro Habana and Old Havana.Technically, the Paseo del Prado includes the entire length of Paseo Martí approximately from the Malecon to Calle Máximo Gómez, [a] the Fuente de la India fountain.