He National Capitol It is one of the symbols of Havana, one of its most iconic and famous places. Shortly after fulfilling a century of inaugurated, it is one of the jewels of architecture on the island and a forced photo for those who visit the city, whether from other provinces or foreigners.
Designed at the time to house the highest legislative authority, many years later it was the headquarters of the Cuban Parliament, after an extensive and thorough restoration. Its wide rooms and gardens, its brilliant dome and the portentous Statue of the Republic They are among their most famous attributes. But what about your surroundings? And the sites and buildings that surround it?
A classic car waiting for tourists near Havana Capitol. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Great Theater of Havana “Alicia Alonso”, next to the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.
The Capitol, built on the land of the former Villanueva station, has a privilege location in the Cuban capital. Located on the border of the Historic Center, in its surroundings there are other well -known places such as the Fraternity Parktoday Great Theater Alicia Alonso, the source of India and the door of the Chinese neighborhood, also frequent in Havana postcards.
But not everything is a tourist review in its surroundings. Not everything combines with its historic majesty and His current beautyafter its reopening for the 500 years of Havana. Nearby, very close to the symbolic building, there is also depauperation and dirt, works in progress – as the reconstruction of the accident Hotel Saratoga-, social and constructive debts, pulse survival in the middle of the crisis.
Old Campoamor Theater, near Havana Capitol. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.The source of India and the Saratoga hotel, where you work for recovery. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.
Near the Capitol – that is, from the headquarters of the National Assembly – there are demolished or semi -ruined buildings, housing in poor condition, parks and other areas where waste and debris accumulate, sites where it was destroyed to build, but it is not built: bites of neglect and dismembered, abandonment or the impossibility of making so many difficulties and deficiencies.
There are also tourists with their cameras and people who ask for money; passers -by and neighbors trying to follow life; sellers of different luck and possibilities; bicitaxists and other day -to -day fighters; Children and young people who play football, outside the difficult reality. To this contrasting environment of the Capitol they bring us this Sunday the photos of Otmaro Rodríguez.
Third -age people try to sell candies near the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.A person asks for money from tourists near the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.A young man sells sweet coconut near the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.A woman walks with her dogs near the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Portal of the First Galician Center in Havana, today Concepción Arenal Elementary School. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Tourists in a classic car near Havana Capitol. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Payret cinema facade, currently under reconstruction. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Place where the Polivalent Chocolate Kit room was located, which was demolished to build the Pasaje Hotel. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Building where the Diario de la Marina was located, then headquarters of the editor April and the Provincial Court, in front of the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Ambulant seller in the Fraternity Park, next to the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Children and young people in the Parque de la Fraternidad, next to the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Young people play football in the Parque de la Fraternidad, next to the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Building where the Diario de la Marina was located, then headquarters of the editor April and the Provincial Court, in front of the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Old Pearl Hotel in Cuba, in the surroundings of the Fraternity Park and Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Portico of the Chinese neighborhood (left) and ruins of the New York Hotel (DER), in the environment of the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Place where the workshop of steam locomotives was previously located, near the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Building of the former Royal Tabacos Factory Partagás, behind the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Buildings on Industry Street, in the environment of the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Citar Capri, then Mégano, in Industria Street, in the environment of the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Housing building, near Havana Capitol. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.La Acacia Gallery and on housing and rental houses, in the environment of the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Inhabitable building, in Industria Street, in the surroundings of the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Entrance of a building in poor condition, in the environment of the Capitol of Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.
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