Caribbean Cruise - Havana, Cuba

Caribbean Cruise - Havana, Cuba

The local "Zapatero" or shoemaker.

A typical house in the suburbs.

A local bar where we indulged a light refreshment.

A relic from the past. Now apartments.

Located near the Fortress "Torreon de Cojimar", this commemorative bust of Ernest Hemingway was sculpted using melted down propellers donated by local fishermen.

This is the Comandancia General; the central headquarters of the Police in Havana.

The Palacio del Conde Lombillo on the north-east corner of the Plaza de la Catedral. Built in the mid18th-century, it is currently used for the Revitalization Master Plan of the City Historian’s Office.

Located opposite the Palacio del Conde Lombillo on the north-west corner of the Plaza de la Catedral, the Casa del Marqués de Aguas Claras was built between 1751 and 1775. It retains its original 18th-century stained glass on its upper-floor windows.

The Cathedral of the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception is one of eleven Roman Catholic cathedrals in Cuba. It is located on the site of an earlier church. While the Jesuits began construction of the cathedral in 1748, it was completed in 1777 some ten years after King Carlos III expelled the Jesuits from Cuba.

Partially obscured by the chandelier, the frescoes above the main altar are by the Italian artist Giuseppe Perovani; 1765 to 1835. He lived in Cuba from 1802 to 1818 after which he moved to Mexico where he died from cholera in 1835.

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