Publication : "Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba : Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754–1828".

NIELL Paul, Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba : Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754–1828, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2015, 344 p. Présentation de l'éditeur : According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island’s first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Hava..