Bust of Christopher Columbus in 'El Templete' a museum on Plaza de Armas, Habana Vieja or old town, Havana, Cuba
In 1492 when Christopher Columbus first set foot in Cuba he wrote "I have never seen a more beautiful place". He died 20 May 1506 and was buried in the Carthusian monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas in Seville. The body was exhumed in 1542 and taken to Santo Domingo in the Caribbean, where it remained until the island was ceded to the French in the 1790s, when it was moved again, to Havana. After the Spanish-American war of 1898 and Spain’s loss of Cuba, Columbus’s remains were at last returned to Spain and buried in Seville Cathedral. Columbus himself never knew that he had discovered the New World, nor did anyone else the time. All he thought he had found was outlying bits of Asia.
Size: 2515px × 3768px
Location: Plaza de Armas, Habana Vieja or old town, Havana, Cuba
Photo credit: © Wendy Johnson / Alamy / Afripics
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