...now the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Havana-Miami-Washington events and arguments and their impact on Cuba
Cuba blogs
About Me
It takes all kinds
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(406)
-
▼
July
(37)
- Odds and ends
- Party Congress postponed
- Senate bill would allow Cuba oil exploration
- “New thinking about property”
- Fan mail from Cubanet
- Odds and ends
- Last word on the ticker (Updated)
- Everybody wants in (Updated)
- Lights out (Updated)
- It's up to us
- Clear as mud
- Weekends at Conrado's
- Odds and ends
- At Treasury, the sound of crickets chirping
- Foreign exchange crunch continues [Updated]
- Santa Maria del Rosario
- Odds and ends
- The Obama policy -- straws in the wind
- Odds and ends
- Church statement on murder investigatoins
- No more Snow in Havana
- A good day in New York
- Migration talks resuming (Updated)
- Odds and ends
- From the archives
- Brazil financing Mariel port development
- Odds and ends
- TV Marti funds cut
- 2,848 more private taxis
- Raulonomics
- No diplomacy, no problem
- Odds and ends
- Quotable
- 78,113 land grants
- Odds and ends
- Centro Asturiano...
- Odds and ends
-
▼
July
(37)
3 comments:
that is one beautiful pic! as always,
thank you for a great blog-
bmack
Peter,
According to Wikipedia this building is one of two housing the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes with the original building housing the Cuban artists collection, and this one housing non-Cuban art. Is Wikipedia right? (I guess in the interest of directing would-be tourists anxious to see Lam's and Portocarrero's we should clarify this point!)
It is interesting to see that this building was built by the Asturian (northern Spaniards) immigrants as a social club (one part of civil society that was exterminated with the 1959 Revolution.)
Una de cal y una de arena!
Vecino de NF
I haven't been inside either building, but I think you're right, the museum consists of this building plus the modern one very nearby, facing the old presidential palace, now Museo de la Revolucion. It is amazing to look at that building, and the grandiose Centro Gallego across the square, and think of them functioning as social clubs for people from different provinces of Spain.
Post a Comment