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Palacio De Los Capitanes Generales
The Palacio de los Capitanes Generales is the former official residence of the governors (Captains General) of Havana, Cuba. 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. It is considered the most important architectural work of all the Baroque development in Cuba. History The plan for the building was put forward to the city council on 28 January 1773 by the governor Felipe de Fondesviela y Ondeano, marqués de la Torre. He proposed that the Parroquial Mayor church be demolished, the square be redesigned in keeping with the grandeur of the developing city and the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales constructed on the eastern side of the square in imitation of Royal Post Office (which would later become the Palacio del Segundo Cabo, the residence of the vice-gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palacio De Los Capitanes Generales
The Palacio de los Capitanes Generales is the former official residence of the governors (Captains General) of Havana, Cuba. 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. It is considered the most important architectural work of all the Baroque development in Cuba. History The plan for the building was put forward to the city council on 28 January 1773 by the governor Felipe de Fondesviela y Ondeano, marqués de la Torre. He proposed that the Parroquial Mayor church be demolished, the square be redesigned in keeping with the grandeur of the developing city and the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales constructed on the eastern side of the square in imitation of Royal Post Office (which would later become the Palacio del Segundo Cabo, the residence of the vice-gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms Of La Habana
A coat typically is an outer garment for the upper body as worn by either gender for warmth or fashion. Coats typically have long sleeves and are open down the front and closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners, toggles, a belt, or a combination of some of these. Other possible features include collars, shoulder straps and hoods. Etymology ''Coat'' is one of the earliest clothing category words in English, attested as far back as the early Middle Ages. (''See also'' Clothing terminology.) The Oxford English Dictionary traces ''coat'' in its modern meaning to c. 1300, when it was written ''cote'' or ''cotte''. The word coat stems from Old French and then Latin ''cottus.'' It originates from the Proto-Indo-European word for woolen clothes. An early use of ''coat'' in English is coat of mail (chainmail), a tunic-like garment of metal rings, usually knee- or mid-calf length. History The origins of the Western-style coat can be traced to the sleeved, close- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Templete
El Templete is a monument to the initial mass of San Cristóbal de la Habana celebrated on November 16, 1519. Jean Baptiste Vermay painted the interior of the monument. See also *La Alameda de Paula, Havana The Alameda de Paula is a promenade in Havana, Cuba, it was the first to be built in the city designed by Antonio Fernández de Trebejos y Zaldívar. History The Alameda de Paula was commissioned by Captain General ( es, Capitanía General de Cu ... References Gallery File:Standard guide to Cuba - a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book (1909) (14779070654).jpg File:Scenes of Cuba (K5 02304) (5981484793).jpg File:El_Templete_-_panoramio.jpg File:Columbus-Memorial---Havana.jpg, "El Templete" in 1899 External linksJean-Baptiste Vermay, El Templete interior [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palacio Del Segundo Cabo
The Palacio del Segundo Cabo was built in the last decades of the 18th century, between 1770 and 1791, as part of the urban improvement project around the Plaza de Armas. History The Palacio del Segundo Cabo is located very close to the founding site of the city on O'Reilly street number 4 between Avenida del Puerto and Tacón, right at the epicenter of the restoration project of the City Historian's Office. The decision to build the Palace construction for the 'Casa de Administración de Correos' would make Havana the center for postal communication between Europe and the Latin American colonies. Later other uses were assigned to it. It housed the Intendancy, Accounting Office, Secretariat, Archive and General Treasury of the Army and the offices and residence of the Sub-Inspector General Segundo Cabo, which gave it the name by which it is recognized to this day. Once the Spanish colonial domination ended, the building became the seat of the Senate of the new Republic. In 1910 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Buildings In Havana
This is a list of the preserved important buildings in Havana, capital of Cuba. Havana was called by the Spanish as the "Key to the New World", and due to the British invasion attempts the Spanish greatly fortified it. The Coat of arms of Havana, colonial coat of arms represented the first three main castles of the city and a key. The "Old Havana and its Fortification System" is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982. In the first half of 20th century was a main center of American tourists. Colonial Demolished Colonial Colonial in the nearby towns Post-colonial See also *Old Havana References {{World Heritage Sites in Cuba Buildings and structures in Havana, Lists of oldest buildings and structures, Havana Spanish Colonial architecture in Cuba, * Architecture in Cuba Historic preservation, Cuba Architecture lists, Cuba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eusebio Leal
Eusebio Leal Spengler (11 September 194231 July 2020) was a Cuban historian. He served as the municipal historian of Havana, as well as the director of the restoration project of Old Havana. Under his oversight, the historic centre of the capital city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He also authored books and hosted radio and television programs that recounted the city and its history. Early life Leal was born in Havana on 11 September 1942. He was raised by a single mother, who was a washerwoman and cleaner. He dropped out of school during grade six in order to support the two of them. Although he did not receive further formal schooling, he passed the university entrance exam through self-learning. He studied at the University of Havana, obtaining a master's degree in Latin American, Caribbean, and Cuban studies and a doctorate of historical science from the same institution. During his studies, he would read in the small museum run by Emilio Roig de Leushenring, to who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Manuel De Céspedes
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo (18 April 1819, Bayamo, Spanish Cuba – 27 February 1874, San Lorenzo, Spanish Cuba) was a Cuban revolutionary hero and First President of Cuba in Arms in 1868. Cespedes, who was a plantation owner in Cuba, freed his slaves and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War (1868–1878). This was the first of three wars of independence, the third of which, the Cuban War of Independence led to the end of Spanish rule in 1898 and Cuba's independence in 1902. Because of his actions which led to the eventual independence of Cuba, he is known there as the "Father of the Fatherland". Ten Years' War Céspedes was a landowner and lawyer in eastern Cuba, near Bayamo, who purchased '' La Demajagua'', an estate with a sugar plantation, in 1844 after returning from Spain. On 10 October 1868, he made the ''Grito de Yara'' (Cry of Yara), declaring Cuban independence, which began the Ten Years' War. That ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nautilus
The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina. It comprises six living species in two genera, the type of which is the genus ''Nautilus''. Though it more specifically refers to species ''Nautilus pompilius'', the name chambered nautilus is also used for any of the Nautilidae. All are protected under CITES Appendix II. Depending on species, adult shell diameter is between 4 and 10 inches. Nautilidae, both extant and extinct, are characterized by involute or more or less convolute shells that are generally smooth, with compressed or depressed whorl sections, straight to sinuous sutures, and a tubular, generally central siphuncle.Kümmel, B. 1964. Nautiloidae-Nautilida, in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Geological Society of America and Univ of Kansas Press, Teichert and Moore eds. Having survived relatively u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Vermay
Jean Baptiste Vermay (1786–1833) was a French-born Cuban painter, sculptor, caricaturist, educator, musician, and architect. He was the founding director of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro. Biography Jean-Baptiste Vermay was born on 15 October 1786 in Tournan-en-Brie, Île-de-France. In 1797, he moved to Paris to study in the studio of Jacques-Louis David. His classmate and friend was Joseph Leclerc de Baumé, the French painter. He also studied in Rome and Florence. In 1908, he won honors for his work ''L'Mort de Marie Stuart'' at the L'Exposition Universelle de 1908, a world's fair. In 1815, Vermay moved to Cuba. Starting in 1818, Vermay was the founding director of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro. He remained at the school until his death. Vermay painted the interior of the El Templete. Vermay in Cuba was appointed ''"Room Painter"'' of the King of Spain, Ferdinand VII. He died on 30 March 1833 in Havana from cholera Cholera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espada Cemetery
The Espada Cemetery was located in the Barrio of San Lazaro approximately a mile west of the city walls, near the cove of Juan Guillen and close to the San Lázaro Leper Hospital.Reynolds, Charles B. (1905) Standard Guide to Cuba: A New and Complete Guide to the Island of Cuba' Pp. 70+; Publisher: Foster & Reynolds Co. In use from 1806 to 1878, the Espada Cemetery was the first public burial place designed and constructed in Havana; prior to the cemetery, the Havana custom had been to bury the dead in the vaults of the churches such as Iglesia del Espíritu Santo in Havava Vieja. It was named after the Bishop incumbent at the time of design, José Díaz de Espada y Landa. Its boundaries included the present streets of San Lázaro, Vapor, Espada, and Aramburu. Despite being officially called ''Campo Santo'', the people of Havana referred to the cemetery as el ''Cementerio de Espada''. The cemetery was closed in 1878 and demolished in 1908, only a small wall remains of the or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stained-glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensional structures and sculpture. Modern vernacular usage has often extended the term "stained glass" to include domestic lead light and ''objets d'art'' created from foil glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany. As a material ''stained glass'' is glass that has been coloured by adding metallic salts during its manufacture, and usually then further decorating it in various ways. The coloured glass is crafted into ''stained glass windows'' in which small pieces of glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures, held together (traditionally) by strips of lead and supported by a rigid frame. Painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the ''fossil record''. Paleontology is the study of fossils: their age, method of formation, and evolutionary significance. Specimens are usually considered to be fossils if they are over 10,000 years old. The oldest fossils are around 3.48 billion years old to 4.1 billion years old. Early edition, published online before print. The observation in the 19th century that certain fossils were associated with certain rock strata led to the recognition of a geological timescale and the relative ages of different fossils. The development of radiometric dating techniques in the early 20th century allowed scientists to quantitatively measure the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
