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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.
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.
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.
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 ]
The Colegio de Belén is a private religious school in Marianao, Havana, located between 45th and 66th streets, next to the Tropicana nightclub.It was designed in 1925 by the architect Leonardo Morales y Pedroso and his brother, an engineer, Luis Morales y Pedroso of the firm Morales y Compañía Arquitectos.
Antonio Maceo Monument. La Casa de Beneficencia, the hotel Manhattan on Calles Belascoáin and San Lazaro, by the U.S. Engineering firm of Purdy and Henderson, and the Hotel Vista Alegre also at the beginning of Calle Belascoáin, anchored a geographically important corner close to the sea of the large expanse of land known as El Barrio San Lazaro and within it and immediately to the north was ...
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.
Statue of José Martí. The gardens surrounding the statue of Jose Marti by José Vilalta Saavedra have a series of paths that intersect. There are 28 royal palms that signify Martí's birth date, as well as 8 coffin-shaped stonework, representing medical students shot by the Spanish Government on the Island during the Ten Years' War November 27, 1871.