The Malecón is a broad esplanade, roadway, and seawall that stretches for 8 km along the coast in Havana, Cuba, from the mouth of Havana Harbor in Old Havana, along the north side of the Centro Habana neighborhood and the Vedado neighborhood, ending at the mouth of the Almendares.
Malecón, Havana
El Malecón in 1905.
El Malecon in 1925
Residences along the Malecón
Lt. General José Antonio de la Caridad Maceo y Grajales was a Cuban general and second-in-command of the Cuban Army of Independence.
Antonio Maceo Grajales
Maceo in uniform
Death of Maceo in 1896
Maceo depicted on the original artist/progress proof designed by the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing for Cuban silver certificates (1936).