Paseo del Prado Lion - La Habana, Cuba
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N 23° 08.672 W 082° 21.508
17Q E 360921 N 2560167
One of two lions standing at the northern end of Paseo del Prado in Havana, Cuba.
Waymark Code: WMV9WT
Location: Cuba
Date Posted: 03/20/2017
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Paseo del Prado, is a street in Havana, Cuba, on the dividing line between Centro Habana and Old Havana.
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.
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