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COLUMBUS CATHEDRAL, HAVANA, CUBA

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Columbus Cathedral, showing main entrance, and within which the remains of Columbus are said to have rested for years.

[ Catedral de La Habana ]

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The church was built in the Baroque architectural style with several Tuscan elements, and is considered one of the best examples of Baroque architecture in Cuba. The building is mainly constructed from blocks of coral cut from sources in…

Our Lady of Mercy Church. Havana. Flowers in a wedding.

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"... founded around 1755 and only officially blessed in 1792. The later construction is clear in the baroque façade while an extensive rebuilding in the 1860s transformed the relatively poor church and convent into one of the most richly decorated…

Our Lady of Mercy church. Havana. Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.

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"The Our Lady of Mercy Church in Old Havana dates back to the 18th and 19th century and was built by the Mercedario Fathers who immigrated to Cuba from Catalonia. Their assets were expropriated by the Medizabal government and expelled from Cuba in…

Iglesia del Ex-Convento Dominico, Ciudad Trujillo, Rep. Dom.

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IGLESIA DEL EX-CONVENTO DOMINICO, Ciudad Trujillo, Rep. Dom. Primera Real y Pontificia Universidad fundada en
América.

CHURCH OF THE FORMER DOMINICAN CONVENT, first Royal and Pontificial University founded in America.

Catedral - Ciudad Trujillo, Rep. Dom.

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CATEDRAL, Ciudad Trujillo, Rep. Dom. La más antigua del nuevo mundo, erigida en 1514, en ella reposan los restos de Cristóbal Colón, descubridor de América.

CATHEDRAL, Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic. The oldest cathedral in the new world,…