Havana

The proximity of the office and bedroom will explain why this residence was first and foremost a command post.

Here you will understand why the industrial route to the capital ended with a transfer to water.

It will show how decisions at the entrance to the bay determined the outcome of the siege and the governor's fate.

It will unpack the evening when one sailor's gesture turned a monument into the cause of a street protest and diplomatic apologies.

The story of the spare stone will show how the sculptor had to save an already completed work.

It helps show how a large public commission was divided into several spaces on a human scale.

Recounts the history of the theft after which the guards were punished, but the thief was never identified.

Explains why the tower's height was not only an architectural calculation but a financial one.

It shows how a ballerina brought about the transformation of an old social complex into a home for several performing arts.

Brings together, at one point, the old coastal defense and the struggle for control of the new army.

Here, the route links today’s ferry crossing with the cargo shore from which it grew.

It opens the route with an empty place where two successive eras tried to secure their own memory.

The final stop connects the defense of the narrow channel with the lighthouse that still marks the entrance to the bay.

It will conclude the route inside the building where a few minutes and one internal staircase changed the outcome of an assassination attempt.

It will explain why the new museum palace opened without works by a significant part of Havana's avant-garde.

This is where the route's main question begins: who cleared space in a cramped port city, and for what purpose.

Here you will learn how a nighttime order changed the owners of an unfinished church and the square's name.

At the end, you will connect the square with water, inheritance, and the provisioning of departing flotillas.

The story returns to the square's history of the women for whom the churchyard became a place of daily hiring.

Here you will untangle a long dispute between economic gain, private interests, and public health.

It will link the avenue’s familiar name to the fates of a teacher and his pupil in the former school building.

Links the architecture of mass entertainment with an attempt to turn an ordinary news broadcast into a call to action.

This stop explains why an unoccupied ridge mattered more than another wall by the water.

Shows how the university's ceremonial entrance became the boundary between study and open protest.