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<p>According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island's first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (<i>cabildo</i>) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana's central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El Templete. Viewing the transformation of the Plaza de Armas from the new perspective of heritage

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Author

Paul B. Niell

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292766594

Category

art

Subjects

Art, History, Architecture

Updated

2026-03-25