Identifier: standardguidetoc00reyn (find matches)
Title: Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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Publisher: Havana : New York : Foster & Reynolds
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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. In the center is a marblestatue of Ferdinand VH. There was a peculiar propriety in setting uphere in front of the Palace the effigy of the Spanish king in whose troubledrule the royal decree was issued which gave to the Captain-General ofCuba all the powers of governors of cities in a state of siege. In old Havana, crowded within the city walls, the Plaza de Armas wasthe favorite pleasure resort of the Havanese in the evening. At 8 oclock, drove to the Plaza de Armas, a square in front of the Governorshouse, to hear the Retreta, at which a military band plays for an hour, every even-ing. There is a clear moon above, and a blue field of glittering stars; the air is pureand balmy; the band of fifty or sixty instruments discourses most eloquent musicimder the shade of palm trees and mangoes; the walks are filled with promenaders,and the streets around the square lined with carriages, in which the ladies reclineand receive the salutations and visits of the gentlemen.—R. H. Dana, 1859.
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EL TEMPLETE. EL TEMPLETE. The Spaniards who explored the new world and planted colonies wereaccompanied by the priests of their religion, and the celebration of themass had a recognized place among the formalities which were observedin the establishment of a town. When in the year 1519 Diego de Velazquezfounded Havana here at the Puerto de Carenas, the priests said a mass undera ceiba tree standing near the shore. At an early period the inhabitantsmarked the historic spot, and in 1747 Captain-General Francisco Cagigarerected for a permanent memorial an obelisk of stone. Arrete, writing ini755> records that in that year the original ceiba tree was in full bloom atan age reckoned at 400 years. When the bones of Columbus were trans-ferred to Havana in 1795, before being deposited in the Cathedral theywere first brought to this spot, and in an ebony sarcophagus were placedin state under the venerable ceiba, where they were formally inspected bythe Captain-General and pronounced to be t

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