Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Havana, Cuba

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 5 sights
Distance 5.1 km
Ascend 84 m
Descend 61 m

Explore Havana in Cuba with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in HavanaIndividual Sights in Havana

Sight 1: Castillo de San Salvador de La Punta

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Castillo de San Salvador de La Punta

Castillo San Salvador de la Punta is a fortress at the entrance to the bay in Havana, Cuba.

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1460 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 2: Banco Metropolitano

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Bank of Nova Scotia Building, Havana is a Neoclassical-style bank building located at the intersection of Calle O´Reilly and Calle Cuba in old Havana.

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1420 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 3: Fraternity park

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Fraternity park

The Parque de la Fraternidad was built in the 1790s as a military practice range by the Spanish government, It was expanded in 1793 by Belgian engineer Agustin Cramer, and later Bishop Espada improved the lighting of the Campo. It was Captain General Don Miguel Tacón who included it within the scope of his embellishment program. The area was then fenced and four majestic gates, crowned with coats of arms, each representing an important personality: the north gate, Hernán Cortés; the south one, Francisco Pizarro; and the east and west gates, Captain General Miguel Tacón y Rosique (1834-1838), and Christopher Columbus respectively.

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747 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: Casa del Mayor General Quintín Banderas

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José Quintín Bandera Betancourt was a military leader of the Cuban insurrection against the Spanish during the Cuban War of Independence. In 1906, Bandera, led an army of insurgents toward Havana, and was killed near Punta Brava, a village close to Havana.

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1424 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 5: Karl Marx

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1894); the latter employs his critical approach of historical materialism in an analysis of capitalism and is the culmination of his intellectual efforts. Marx's ideas and theories and their subsequent development, collectively known as Marxism, have exerted enormous influence on modern intellectual, economic and political history.

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