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José María, the fourth of eleven children, was born at 11 a.m. on 30 December, 1899. Traveling in the German passenger ship S.S. Chemnitz, he arrived in Havana at twelve years of age on 12 December, 1913. [1] His mother was Josefa Lledín Mendes and his father was Manuel Lopez Rodriguez; the owners of a small vineyard, they produced and sold ...
Gran Teatro de La Habana is a theater in Havana, Cuba, home to the Cuban National Ballet. It was designed by the Belgian architect Paul Belau and built by Purdy and Henderson, Engineers in 1914 at the site of the former Teatro Tacón. Its construction was paid for by the Galician immigrants of Havana to serve as a community-social center.
Architecture. The Teatro Tacón had excellent acoustics, so much so that the Gran Teatro de La Habana was built around its old hall. Architect Paul Belau and U.S. firm Purdy and Henderson, Engineers kept the original structure and built the Centro Gallego (Galician Center), a European-styled addition and renovation for the purpose of enlarging its functions as well as serving as a means of ...
The Palacio de los Capitanes Generales is the former official residence of the Spanish Empire's governors (Captains General) of Havana, Cuba, and in the Post-Colonial Period was for many time the City Hall. Located on the eastern side of the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana it is home to the Museum of the City of Havana ( Museo de la Ciudad ).
Gran Teatro de La Habana, 1915. In Havana, the Galician anthem was sung for the first time. The Galicians have more than 15,300 members approximately, dispersed mainly in Havana, Cárdenas, Matanzas, Pinar del Río, Camagüey, Trinidad, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo. They arrived from Vigo, to the port of Havana ...
La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana; 1799 Bateria de Santa Clara, 1799 File:Battery of Santa Clara areal. Havana, Cuba.jpg; 19th century Map of Havana. 1853 Map of Havana. 1866 Map of Havana, 1888 Map of Havana, 1898 Map of Havana, 2016. 1806 – Espada Cemetery; 1810 – Hurricane. 1811 – Population: 94,023. 1813 – El Lucero ...
Havana was first visited by Spaniards during Sebastián de Ocampo 's circumnavigation of the island in 1508. [2] In 1510, the first Spanish colonists arrived from the island of Hispaniola and began the conquest of Cuba. Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded San Cristóbal de la Habana in 1514, on the southern coast of the island, near the ...
Parque de la Fraternidad, Capitolio Nacional, Palacio de Aldama, and El Paseo del Prado, Havana, aerial view, 1931 (Oficina del Historiador de La Habana). The 20th century began with Cuba [6] under occupation by the United States (1898–1902) , [7] which officially ended when Tomás Estrada Palma , first president of Cuba , took office on 20 ...