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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.
Fragmento-del-Plano-de-La-Habana-de-1900-de-Esteban-Pichardo, Havana, Cuba Hotel Pasaje in front of Paseo de Isabel. Built in 1871, the Hotel Passage was the first building to be built in Cuba dedicated to the hotel industry. [1]
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.
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.
This large territory is the Barrio de San Lázaro, a no man's land where the orphans from La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana, the lepers of the Hospital de San Lazaro, the mentally ill from Casa de Dementes de San Dionisio and the deceased of the Espada Cemetery were located.
Established in the early 1520s in Habana Vieja, the Plaza de las Armas was designed to serve as the original main square for the military and government in Havana. [2] As Spanish custom when they laid out a new town, open space was reserved for a public square when the city was founded in 1519. [ 3 ]
Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish: Radio Habana Cuba, RHC) is the official government-run international broadcasting station of Cuba.It can be heard in many parts of the world, including the United States, on shortwave frequencies.