Year: 2019

Havana turns five hundred years old and the obvious reason ignites the engine of words and there we go to the remembrance ,invite Antonio López-, with some counting, and even the future, to add in the stew.

José Lezama Lima was a Habanero writer. An admirer of streets, neighborhoods and especially the Paseo del Prado area, where he lived, the city is portrayed in the pages of several of his books.

Havana is not just the historic center; she is also this space that makes us suffer; it is the rubbish piled in its corners, the thick sewer, the unpainted walls, is the preacher who no longer sells the hard cold of childhood, but expensive avocados injected with chemicals.

The Cathedral and its square, the Templete, the Plaza de Armas, the Plaza Vieja, the Plaza de San Francisco, the Plaza del Cristo, the Alameda de Paula, and other iconic places of the city constitute the pillars of the identity of the capital of Cuba.

From the fresh and deep prose of the journalist Jesús Arencibia Lorenzo comes this text that best illustrates the complex relationship of a “pinareño guajiro” with the capital of the Republic.

Havana: the vivid Havana portrait from the children’s remembrances of Alejo Carpentier

Lázaro Numa Aguila proposes a visual tour of some places that are deeply linked to the history of the capital of Cuba and that are still preserved.