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
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.
Barrio de San Lázaro, Havana
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Barrio de San Lázaro is one of the first neighbourhoods in Havana, Cuba. It initially occupied the area bounded by Calle Infanta to the west, Calle Zanja to the south, Calle Belascoáin to the east, an
La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana
…La Casa de Beneficencia." It was not until 1794 during the government of Luis de las Casas that the Beneficencia was located in its final location in Barrio San Lazaro at the corners of San Lazaro and Belascoáin. The Casa Cuna was founded in 1687 by Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela. His death left the orphanage…
Malecón, San Lázaro and Belascoáin: Vista Alegre Café, Hotel Manhattan by Purdy and Henderson, Engineers, La Casa de Beneficencia. ca 1951.
Calle Belascoáin "the edge of the city"" today calle Félix Varela
Calle de San Lázaro at Cazada Infanta, showing the steps at the University of Havana in the background, ca. 1956
Marcos Lucio's Torreón de San Lázaro, built in 1665.