Havana Tunnel is a route under the Havana Bay, built by the French company
Societé de Grand Travaux de Marseille between 1957-58.
The president of the Republic
Fulgencio Batista planned to expand the city to
Habana del Este
Habana del Este (Spanish for "East Havana"), also spelled ''La Habana del Este'', is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (''municipios'' in Spanish) forming the city of Havana, Cuba.
Geography
As its name indicates it is on the eastern side ...
with a new suburb, and a new connection between
Havana Vieja
Old Havana ( es, link=no, La Habana Vieja) is the city-center (downtown) and one of the 15 municipalities (or boroughs) forming Havana, Cuba. It has the second highest population density in the city and contains the core of the original city of ...
and the east side across Havana Bay was required.
The tunnel extends from the
Paseo de Prado, is 733 m long and 12 m below ground level. It takes a driver 45 seconds traveling at a speed of 60 km/h to traverse the tunnel. In the 1970s the new suburb of Alamar in East Havana was built with the aid of the former Soviet Union. The new suburb was composed of Soviet-style concrete buildings, with no city center or character.
Gallery
File:Havana Harbor Tunnel.jpg, Havana Bay Tunnel entrance from the west
File:Havana Bay Tunnel entrance from the east.jpg, Havana Bay Tunnel entrance from East Havana
File:Construction of entrance to Havana Tunnel, Havana, Cuba.jpg, Construction of entrance to Havana Tunnel
See also
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Havana Plan Piloto
The Havana Plan Piloto was a 1955–1958 urban proposal by Town Planning Associates, which included Paul Lester Wiener, Paul Schulz, the Catalan architect Josep Lluis Sert, and Seely Stevenson of Value & Knecht, Consulting Engineers, seeking ...
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Havana Harbor
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Malecón, Havana
The Malecón (officially Avenida de Maceo) is a broad esplanade, roadway, and seawall that stretches for 8 km (5 miles) along the coast in Havana, Cuba, from the mouth of Havana Harbor in Old Havana, along the north side of the Centro Habana ...
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Habana del Este
Habana del Este (Spanish for "East Havana"), also spelled ''La Habana del Este'', is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (''municipios'' in Spanish) forming the city of Havana, Cuba.
Geography
As its name indicates it is on the eastern side ...
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