Paseo del Prado - La Habana, Cuba
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N 23° 08.249 W 082° 21.549
17Q E 360844 N 2559387
Paseo del Prado, is a street in Havana, Cuba, on the dividing line between Centro Habana and Old Havana.
Waymark Code: WMV9WH
Location: Cuba
Date Posted: 03/20/2017
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Technically, the Paseo includes entire length of Paseo Martí, including:
-the divided street with promenade extending from the Malecón to Neptuno Street
-the street along the west side of the Parque Central
-the street on the east side of the Capitolio
-the area around the Fuente de la India fountain.
In 1772 Don Felipe Fonsdeviela y Ondeano designed the street and in 1925 French landscape architect Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier redesigned the paseo, lined with trees and with marble benches.
Lining the boulevard are important buildings such as hotels (including the Hotel Sevilla), cinemas, theaters, and mansions imitating styles from Madrid, París and Vienna. El Prado was the first paved street in Havana. When El Capitolio was built in 1929 that section of the promenade was removed.
Our pictures show the Palacio Gomez (Alliance française de Cuba), Hotel Inglaterra, National Theatre of Havana and El Capitolio.
The coordinates were taken in front of Hotel Inglaterra and Parque Central.
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