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Old Cuba (Hardcover)
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Old Cuba (Hardcover)
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Cuba dominates the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, fixed between
the great continents to the north and to the south, and has long
served as a bridge between the Old World and the New. First visited
by Christopher Columbus in 1492, its history of interaction with
the Old World of Europe is among the longest in the Americas, and
its architecture bears testament to this: Cuba is home to some of
the most ancient cities and towns in the western hemisphere. As a
result, the country once known as the pearl of the Antilles, stands
now as a treasure chest of alluring historic architecture seasoned
by European precedents mixed with colonial and Caribbean spice and
boasts an extraordinary number of UNESCO Cultural Heritage sites,
from the historic center of Old Havana with its original city walls
and the Castillo de la Real Fuerza the oldest extant colonial
fortress in the Americas to the sixteenth-century city of Trinidad,
within the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus, recognized by
historians and scholars as a triumph of historic preservation and
whose maze of pastel mansions and churches forms one of the best
collections of colonial architecture to be found anywhere. From Old
Havana to Santiago de Cuba, Old Cuba offers an intimate look at the
historic architecture the houses, apartments, monuments, charming
public spaces, and centuries-old churches of this storied country.
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