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Highlights include Casa del Che Cultural Center, Casablanca and the Hershey Electric Railway, Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta, Central Park, Christ of Havana, Coppelia Ice Cream Parlor.

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  1. Casa del Che Cultural Center: story on the “Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress” route

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

  2. Casablanca and the Hershey Electric Railway: story on the “Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress” route

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

  3. Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta: story on the “Prado and Havana's Grand Facades” route

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

  4. Central Park: story on the “Prado and Havana's Grand Facades” route

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

  5. Christ of Havana: story on the “Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress” route

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

  6. Coppelia Ice Cream Parlor: story on the “Vedado: Malecón and Modern Havana” route

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

  7. El Capitolio: story on the “Prado and Havana's Grand Facades” route

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

  8. FOCSA Building: story on the “Vedado: Malecón and Modern Havana” route

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

  9. Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso: story on the “Prado and Havana's Grand Facades” route

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

  10. Hotel Nacional de Cuba and Santa Clara Battery: story on the “Vedado: Malecón and Modern Havana” route

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

  11. Luz Wharf: story on the “Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress” route

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

  12. Malecón at 23rd Street: story on the “Vedado: Malecón and Modern Havana” route

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

  13. Morro Castle and Morro Lighthouse: story on the “Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress” route

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

  14. Museum of the Revolution: story on the “Prado and Havana's Grand Facades” route

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

  15. National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba: story on the “Prado and Havana's Grand Facades” route

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

  16. Plaza de Armas: story on the “Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port” route

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

  17. Plaza de la Catedral: story on the “Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port” route

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

  18. Plaza de San Francisco de Asís: story on the “Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port” route

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

  19. Plaza del Cristo: story on the “Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port” route

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

  20. Plaza Vieja: story on the “Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port” route

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

  21. Prado: story on the “Prado and Havana's Grand Facades” route

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

  22. Radiocentro CMQ Building and Yara Cinema: story on the “Vedado: Malecón and Modern Havana” route

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

  23. San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress: story on the “Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress” route

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

  24. University of Havana and Alma Mater: story on the “Vedado: Malecón and Modern Havana” route

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

  25. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de Armas — 100 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  30. Nearest audio-route stop: Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso — 120 m in a straight line, route Prado and Havana's Grand Facades

  35. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de San Francisco de Asís — 90 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  40. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de Armas — 90 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  42. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza Vieja — 60 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  44. Nearest audio-route stop: Christ of Havana — 10 m in a straight line, route Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress

  48. Nearest audio-route stop: Prado — 110 m in a straight line, route Prado and Havana's Grand Facades

  55. Nearest audio-route stop: Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso — 60 m in a straight line, route Prado and Havana's Grand Facades

  66. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de Armas — 60 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  73. Nearest audio-route stop: FOCSA Building — 20 m in a straight line, route Vedado: Malecón and Modern Havana

  76. Nearest audio-route stop: Central Park — 30 m in a straight line, route Prado and Havana's Grand Facades

  92. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de San Francisco de Asís — 40 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  98. Nearest audio-route stop: Museum of the Revolution — 100 m in a straight line, route Prado and Havana's Grand Facades

  102. Nearest audio-route stop: Morro Castle and Morro Lighthouse — 20 m in a straight line, route Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress

  103. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de San Francisco de Asís — 110 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  106. Nearest audio-route stop: University of Havana and Alma Mater — 110 m in a straight line, route Vedado: Malecón and Modern Havana

  112. Nearest audio-route stop: Luz Wharf — 140 m in a straight line, route Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress

  113. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de Armas — 80 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  114. Nearest audio-route stop: Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso — 70 m in a straight line, route Prado and Havana's Grand Facades

  117. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de la Catedral — 60 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  119. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de San Francisco de Asís — 10 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  120. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza Vieja — 30 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  121. Nearest audio-route stop: Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta — 50 m in a straight line, route Prado and Havana's Grand Facades

  127. Nearest audio-route stop: San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress — 40 m in a straight line, route Across Havana Bay to Morro Castle and San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress

  131. Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de San Francisco de Asís — 140 m in a straight line, route Old Havana: Squares from the Fortress to the Port

  136. Nearest audio-route stop: Central Park — 30 m in a straight line, route Prado and Havana's Grand Facades

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