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Havanna (Spanish La Habana, complete designation San Cristóbal de La Habana), is the capital of Cuba and at the same time independent province. Havanna is with 2.201.610 inhabitants (census 2002) after Caracas and Maracaibo (Venezuela) as well asSanto Domingo (Dominican republic) the fourth largest city in the Karibik. Since the year 1982 the old part of town of Havannabelongs to the world cultural heritage.

Originally Havanna was created in the year 1515 by the Konquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in the proximity of the today's city Batabanó. In the year 1519 Havanna was shifted to the today's location. The city developed due to the extremely favorable situation to an important handels and military port. The city suffered much from attacks of Piraten, which were tightened by the valuable loaded Spanish ships: 1538 were down-burned it. Havanna became 1607 capital of the Spanish colony Cuba. Great Britaintook 1762 during the seven-year-old of war the city and exchanged it in Paris peace for Florida. After it was again in Spanish possession, it was developed to the most strongly fastened city America.

The old part of town Havannas, with its baroque and neoclassical Monumenten, is particularly worth seeing which belong to the oldest Spanish colonial settlements. It was placed to 1982 under the UNESCO world cultural heritage, and is already restored since then by the piece. One of the most beautiful buildings therein is the matter the ' Palacio de Capitanes of general ', the former governor palace. In addition worth seeing the Castillo de la Fuerza, as well as the port fortress on the eastern side of the entry is material to the Bahia, La Cabaña. The quarters center Habana, which extends west the Prado to at the Malecon, remained to a large extent exempted from any restoration. This is at the same time one of the poorest quarters of the city, into itself only rare tourists the mad. The built volumes are predominantly coined/shaped of decay here. An attendance of this range of the city offers another view of the living conditions of the Cuban population than the attendance from areas of the city already reconditioned, e.g. Habana Vieja or Vedado.