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CENTRO HABANA
AND PRADO

Centro Habana has the air of an impoverished for the citizens. Most of the construction took
aristocrat – a noble creature whose thread­ place after 1863, when the walls began to be
bare clothes belie a splendid past full of demolished to make more land available.
treasures. This varied quarter developed The work was finally completed in the 1920s
beyond the city walls (which ran parallel to and 30s, when French architect Forestier
present­day Avenida Bélgica and Avenida landscaped the area of the Paseo del Prado,
de las Misiones) during the 1800s and was the Parque Central, the Capitolio gardens
initially built to provide housing and greenery and Parque de la Fraternidad.

Sights at a Glance
Historic Buildings Quarters
1 Hotel Inglaterra e Barrio Chino
3 Capitolio pp86–7 Theatres
5 Real Fábrica de Tabacos Partagás 2 Gran Teatro de La Habana
6 Palacio de Aldama
8 Castillo de San Salvador de la Churches
Punta 0 Iglesia del Ángel Custodio
Historic Streets and Plazas r Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón
4 Parque de la Fraternidad Museums See also Street Finder,
pp122–7, maps 3 & 4
7 Paseo del Prado pp90–91 9 Museo Nacional de la Música
t Avenida Carlos III q Museo de la Revolución pp92–3
y Callejón de Hammel w Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
u City Walls pp96–9

0 metres 800
0 yards 800 MALECÓN
SAN LÁZARO PASEO DE MARTÍ (PRADO)
MALECÓN CRESPO REFUGIO
PARQUE MACEO SAN LÁZARO ZULUETA
HOSPITAL
VAPOR ÁGUILA TROCADERO
ÁNIMAS
S A N L Á Z A R O VIRTUDES PERSEVERANCIA VIRTUDES AVENIDA DE ITALIA (GALIANO) AMISTAD VIRTUDES
CONCORDIA SOLEDAD AVENIDA DE LAS MISIONES (MONSERRATE)
NEPTUNO
SAN MIGUEL SAN RAFAEL
OQUENDO
SAN MARTÍN (SAN JOSÉ) AGRAMONTE
GERVASIO
ESPADA
SAN MARTÍN (SAN JOSÉ) Z A N J A BARCELONA
MARQUÉS GONZÁLEZ
LUCENA
SAN FRANCISCO
PADRE VARELA (BELASCOAÍN)
ZANJA SOLEDAD CAMPANARIO ZANJA DRAGONES
SAN NICOLÁS
C A L Z A D A D E I N F A N T A
JESÚS PEREGRINO AVE. SIMÓN BOLÍVAR (REINA) ÁGUILA AMISTAD
AVE SALVADOR ALLENDE ESCOBAR ENRIQUE BARNET CORRALES CÁRDENAS AVENIDA BÉLGICA
(CARLOS III)
AGRAMONTE
MALOJA
SITIOS SAN CARLOS PEÑALVER APADACA
MISIÓN
ESCOBAR FIGURAS M Á X I M O GÓ M E Z (MONTE) Estación
PEÑALVER MARQUÉS GONZÁLEZ PADRE VARELA (BELASCOAÍN) CORRALES ÁGUILA (EGIDO)
Central
MANRIQUE GLORIA DIARIA
OQUENDO
BENJUMEDA CARMEN ESPERANZA FACTORÍA
RETIRO
PLASENCIA
CLAVEL PUERTA CERRADA
C A L Z A D A D E I N FA N TA
ARROYO (AVENIDA MANGLAR) AVENIDA DEL PUERTO
ÁRBOL SECO
The Capitolio, once the seat of Cuba’s government – and soon to be again For keys to symbols see back flap
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