HAVANA -- Wandering into a small park shaded by fruit trees in Old Havana, I was surprised to come across a bronze bust of Hans Christian Andersen. Havana is a city of surprises, the biggest of which is the miracle of its preservation. It's not just that half a century of socialist revolution has kept modernization at bay; it's just as much about...
HAVANA -- Wearing orange jerseys -- well, T-shirts, really -- the Cuban players lined up along the first-base line at Mella Field. We were in blue, along third. All of us held our caps over our hearts, and the Cuban National Concert Band played two national anthems, first the United States', then Cuba's, followed, for some reason, by ''The Pink...
CHANGÓ'S BEADS AND TWO-TONE SHOES By William Kennedy 328 pp. Viking. $26.95. William Kennedy's new novel, ''Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes,'' is his most musical work of fiction: a polyrhythmic contemplation of time and its effects on passion set in three different eras, a jazz piece unafraid to luxuriate in its roots as blues or popular...
La Habana, hvis officielle navn er Ciudad de la Habana, (på dansk Havana) er hovedstaden i republikken Cuba og den næststørste by i Caribien med et indbyggertal på 2,1 millioner. Det er samtidig navnet på en af Cubas provinser.
Conquistadoren Diego Velasquez de Cuellar grundlagde i 1515 på øens sydkyst den første by på Cuba kaldet La Habana, men flyttede i 1519 byen til dens nuværende placering.
Havanna var oprindeligt et handelssted og blev hovedstad i den spanske koloni Cuba i 1607, og blev den vigtigste havneby i de spanske kolonier i den Nye Verden.
Havanna led under fribytteres nedbrænding af byen i 1538 samt plyndringer i 1553 og 1555. Storbritannien indtog byen i 1762 og gav den det følgende år i bytte for Florida. Efter at have fået byen tilbage gjorde spanierne den til den bedst befæstede by i Amerika. Fold ud