Like all big cities, like the most picturesque and cosmopolitan cities, Havana It is a city with many faces.
It has, of course, the faces of its people, of the Havanans in their comings and goings, in their daily ups and downs. And it also has those of the visitors, of those who come from other parts of the island and the world to merge with the rhythms and colors of the city.
But, the Cuban capital also has many other views and perspectives: those focused on its streets, its buildings, its parks and other public places, its monuments and sculptures, the sea…
Havana, which for many is the city of columns, or of classic cars —the almendrones—, or of the busy boardwalk, exhibits other protagonists and attributes when seen not from the ground, from the asphalt, but from the heights .
Havana then becomes the city of rooftops and antennas, of plastic tanks —that dot the landscape with their blue color—, of the buildings and chimneys that rise in the distance, of the ships that arrive or leave the city. bay, of the flags flying overhead.
From one of its high points, it appears calmer, less polluted with noise and soot, closer to the clouds and the sky. She then reveals other views, other details unattainable from below, and also discovers, from another angle, her wounds and contrasts, her impoverishment and novelties.
Our photojournalist Otmaro Rodríguez arrived this week at one of those unique viewpoints, the terrace of the Iberostar Parque Central hotel, and from there he captured different views of the city with his lens.
That is Havana that we show you today: the one that can be seen without makeup from one of its most central locations and also the one that throbs and reveals itself from on high, more than five centuries after its birth.
Embed note September 23, 2024, 4:00 AM September 23, 2024, 4:00 AM Only eight women are on the list of the 39 candidates still in the race to be attorney general. 79%
According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE)Approximately 67% of Colombian households, that is, more than four million families, have pets. However, what is striking first of all is the increasingly
HAVANA, Cuba.- Capablanca will always be Capablanca And we will never take him down from that throne. Because he was a genius, because he reached the world title, and because he had
N or there are words, much less rhetoric, which exempts us from encountering a viscous, opaque reality, which does not admit presumptions of understanding or bravado to project it. We are stunned
Although he denied it on more than one occasion, according to a video broadcast by the news program Countercurrent Yes, the famous fight between the wife of legislator Darwin Espinoza, Bélgica Arangoitia,