The Capitolio Havana

Paseo de Marti (Prado), Havana , Cuba - Phone: 53 7 862 6536
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  • 1

    Adrift

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    ... but a walking cash cow that every Cuban is intent on milking dry. I get offered cigars over ten times in one block west of the Capitolio. I have to admire the optimism that each of these guys displays -- that somehow their "Cigar, friend?" or "Cohiba, ...

  • 2

    Full Friday, afternoon

    12 photos

    ... The cashier just shrugs at my question, El es muerto, no? (Isn't he dead?) My plan to leave my family to tour the Capitolio while I do some journal uploading is thwarted by the fact the cybercafe inside the building is closed. I hang out at the ...

  • 3

    For the record

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    ... bar. The sounds of the city are distant this high. The orange floodlights define the statues of the Grand Teatro and the dome of the Capitolio. Havana feels like a world city from here, a place where moneyed people talk too loudly on cellphones to family ...

  • 4

    Final Day

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    ... before the early afternoon heat. Cuba's a great country for kids, with its languid tempo. Our destination this morning is the Capitolio Nacional, a vast domed structure many times the size and much more opulent than the BC Legislature back home where ...

  • 5

    The magnificent and the crumbling...

    75 photos

    ... whilst on his mobile phone; the latest digitial SLR taking the same shot as the 1920's black and white pinhole camera outside the Capitolio.  Even in this 3 million-plus metropolis, life is quite relaxed as people queue without hassle at the holes ...

  • 6

    First steps outside

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    ... pedestrian boulevard that runs south from Havana's famed Malecon waterfront to a park just north of the vast domes of the Capitolio Nacional. We don't go as far as this in either direction, limiting ourselves to a quick foray a block or two before ...

  • 7

    You can pick your revoluntionaries...

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    ... We got to try the seven year old rum and even I liked it. Steve had two samples so he was content. We also checked out the Capitolio, I was asked not to step up to one of the immense statues, just to look, and we did a stop in Revolucion Square where ...

  • 8

    HAVANA GOOD TIME

    50 photos

    ... as they transported tourists around and watched the local kids play baseball with a stick and a bottle top. We admired the Capitolio Nacional building, an almost exact replica of the Capitol Building in Washington DC, but apparently more detailed (if ...

  • 9

    Charles' Travel Blog of Cuba

    39 photos

    ... traded, only handed down to family members. Cubans put forth heroic effort to keep the old cars running. The Capitolio is a building near Old Havana that is a replica of our (If you're from the U.S.) nation's ...

  • 10

    Museum Mecca

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    ... headed out onto the always bustling streets of downtown Havana to begin our day.  Our first stop for the morning was at the Capitolio Nacional which is the city's most ambitious and grandiose building.  This elegant domed building is ...