Caleta de San Lazaro
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Arcabuco was the name of a footpath starting in Old Havana, in the vicinity of the church of Loma del Ángel, and ran in a westerly direction to an inlet cove of approximately 93 metres wide and 5.5 me
Caleta de San Lázaro
La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana, was for 270 years Havana's repository of Havana's unwanted children. The House of Charity started during a time when Cuba was experiencing extreme po
Caleta de San Lazaro
…de Juan Guillén”, the road was known as “the caleta”. Eventually the Hospital de San Lázaro, the Espada Cemetery, the San Dionisio mental asylum, and La Casa de Beneficencia were developed in close proximity to the Caleta de San Lazaro. In 1916 the dredging of the Caleta of San Lazaro began, in September the 1919 Florida…
View from San Lazaro
The son of Fidel Castro rides atop a tank in Havanna, Jan 8,1959
Foundling Hospital in London
Casa de Beneficencia during the cyclone of 1919, Antonio Maceo in the background.