Casa Amistad 378

Room for rent is located in the heart of Havana, one block from the Capitol, near Old Havana and Havana's Chinatown. Walking you can tour Old Havana, Havana Malecon and Prado. Three blocks away, in Central Park, the tourist bus leaves the wearer to walk all over Havana and the eastern beaches.

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At Home Amistad 378 rented a room at the very center of Havana, three blocks from the house may visit part of the Curtain Wall, Monserrate and Teniente Rey, so you. You can start down The Wall Havana and visit the remains of the Wall preserved, a good option is to visit them on a horse-drawn carriage, or walking in a rickshaw.To reinforce the defense complex of Havana in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, formed by the trilogy of bastioned fortresses of La Fuerza, El Morro and La Punta, in the early seventeenth century War Board recommended building a fence or wall to prevent access of enemies on land, whereas as Havana was built on a peninsula, that would prevent attacks by land, determined to surround the city in a stone wall. Francisco Rodríguez Ledesma is considered the initiator of the Wall of Havana, starting it on the side of the bay, the start date was February 4, 1674.

The land section of the Wall of Havana, from Punta to La Tenaza and thence to Paula [1695-1702] was completed and in full, ie, bypassing the city also by the sea side in 1740.

The Wall of Havana had an average of 1.40 meters thick and 10 high, all good stalls. It was 9 bastions and a bulwark, La Tenaza, joined by curtains, they could have four guns on their faces and two on each flank. In the bulwarks there were sentry boxes for sentries.

It also had covered road with their parade grounds, wide moat and escarpment; its endowment was 3,400 men and their armament was 180 weapons of different caliber.

The nine gates were in front of Muralla Street, which later became known as Puerta de Tierra, La Punta, El Arsenal, La Tenaza, of Luz, of San Jose and Jesus Maria and in the nineteenth century Colon and the two doors of Monserrate, corresponding to the streets of Obispo and O'Reilly. The doors opened and closed with individual guns and custom hearing the second shot at 9:00 PM has lasted until today, the ceremony can enjoy visiting La Cabaña.

The walls were demolished between August 8, 1863 and early twentieth century, surviving as heritage places some cloths, walls and sentry boxes, being the portion of greater length which was retained by the Central Railway Station Havana (Curtain Wall and Gate La Tenaza in Egido and San Isidro), where a bronze plaque which reproduces on a map of Havana intramural tour of the walls with bulwark, sentry boxes and doors. In this plaque, which can still be seen, reads: "Remains of the walls that circled the ancient city of Havana, built between the years of 1674-1797".

At present the following traces of the Wall of Havana are preserved, which can be visited, a good option is to visit them on a horse-drawn carriage, in a bicitaxi or walking:

1.    Curtain Wall of Havana / Monserrate y Teniente Rey / 1674-1740.

2.    Bulwark del Ángel / Avenida de las Misiones y Refugio / 1680-1695.

3.    Sentry box de la Maestranza / Cuba y Tacón / 1674-1740.

4.    Bulwark of Paula / Desamparados y San Isidro / 1674-1740.

5.    Curtain Wall of Havana / Egido y Avenida La Pesquera / 1674-1740.

6.    Curtain Wall of Havana and Gate of La Tenaza / Egido y San Isidro / 1674-1740.

7.    Guard Corps of the New Gate / Egido y Arsenal / 1674-1755. 

Havana's Chinatown

Havana s Chinatown have many restaurants and society. The Barrio Chino de La Habana is no longer. In Chinese Language and Arts House (Escuela de Artes y Tradiciones Chinas) Teach Chinese language and has grown since then, helping Chinese Cubans and Cubans to strengthen their knowledge of the Chinese language.

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