Miramar, Havana
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Miramar District | ||
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Municipality Playa | | |
| Elevation | 45 m (148 ft) | |
| Population | 472,569 | |
| Time zone | EST | |
| Area code | (+53) 7 | |
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Miramar is a residential district (zona residencial) of the municipality of Playa, in the city of Havana.
Overview
Many
Russian Embassy
, are located in Miramar - in particular on Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue) before called Avenida de las Américas (Avenue of the Americas).
Prior to the
casas particulares). Also located here is the International School of Havana
.
Since the late 1990s, several office blocks have been built in a complex called Centro de Negocios Miramar - the "Miramar Trade Center".
Points of interest
Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue)
- Casa de Alberto de Armas (1926), a restored Beaux-Arts mansion at Calle 2 by architect Jorge Luis Echarte
- Reloj de Quinta Avenida at Calle 10, a large clock erected in 1924 in the central median
- Museum of the Ministry of the Interior (Museo del Ministerio del Interior) at Calle 12
- Casa del Habano (between Calles 14 and 16) (also in the Melia Habana near the Miramar Trade Center and Club Habana)
- Teatro Miramar at Calle 94
- Parque de los Ahorcados (Park of the Hanged), between Calles 24 and 26, "shaded by massive jagüey trees, seemingly supported by their aerial roots dangling like cascades of water"
- Karl Marx Theater(Teatro Karl Marx) in the park
- Plaza Emiliano Zapata, with a life-size stone statue of Zapata, Mexico’s revolutionary hero
- Rosita De Hornedo Hotel, now the CIMEX corporation, located in first avenue between 0 and 2.
- Iglesia de Santa Rita de Casia (at Calle 26) — a modernist church from 1942 which mixes neocolonial and modern features by architect Victor Morales. Features a modernist statue of Santa Rita by Rita Longa
- Gracious mansions, many of them foreign embassies
- Iglesia San Antonio de Padua (at Calle 60) — Modernist-style Romanesque church (1949) by architects Eloy Norman and Salvador Figueras
- Russian Embassy (1988) (between Calles 62 and 66) by architects Alexander Rochegov and Basilio Piasecki
- Occidental Miramar hotel, site of the former Peruvian Embassy
- Hotel Barceló Habana Ciudad (between Calles 76 and 80)
- Miramar Trade Center
- Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar (between Calles 80 and 82), built in 1953 with a magnificent organ with 5,000 pipes. The restored church features 14 splendid oversize paintings of the Stations of the Cross by Spanish artist César Hombrados Oñativa.
- El Ajibe, a restaurant visited by Anthony Bourdain on his Travel Channel program "No Reservations".
- Old Miramar Yacht Club, now a club for Cuban air force officers. The picture at right is wrong. For pictures of the Club go to miramaryachtclub.com.
- Source: "Walking Quinta Avenida", Moon Travel Guides
Parks
- Parque Ecológico Monte Barreto, 9th Avenue west of Calle 70
- Parque de los Ahorcados (Park of the Hanged), Quinta Avenida between Calles 24 and 26
Education
The International School of Havana, an English-language international school, is in Miramar.[1]
The Centro Educativo Español de La Habana (CEEH), a Spanish-language international school, is in Miramar.[2]
Notable people
- Cristina Saralegui was born in Miramar, Havana.
References
- ^ "Contact Us Archived 2005-11-25 at the Wayback Machine." International School of Havana. Retrieved on September 29, 2015. "Address: Calle 18 #315 esquina a 5ta. Avenida, Miramar, Havana. Cuba"
- ^ "BIENVENIDO a nuestro Centro." Centro Educativo Español de La Habana. Retrieved on September 29, 2015. "nuestros alumnos son hijos de empresarios, diplomáticos, extranjeros residentes y ciudadanos españoles residentes en esta ciudad." and "Sede de E. Infantil y E. Primaria Avenida 5taB y 70, No. 6815 Miramar, Playa. La Habana"
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Miramar.
- Hotels in Miramar, Havana Travel and tourism
