Capitanes Generales, again

Here’s another view of the Palacio del los Capitanes Generales, a beautiful and majestic building that is at the center of Havana’s colonial sector and at the center of Cuba’s colonial history. It was completed in 1791 and housed 65 Spanish colonial governors, four chiefs of U.S. occupation forces, three presidents of Cuba, 170 mayors of Havana, and the offices of the city's first official historian, Emilio Roig de Leuchensring. It was the first project in a huge restoration effort that Roig's successor, Eusebio Leal, continues today (a 2001 report on Havana’s restoration [pdf] is here). The Palacio now houses the Museum of the City of Havana.