Cuba: Late afternoon light on the bell tower of the former Convent of San Francisco de Asis, Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus Province. Trinidad was founded by Diego Velázquez in 1514 as Cuba’s third European colonial settlement. Initially it prospered as a gold-mining centre, and also as a base of operations for the conquistador Hernán Cortés during his 1518 invasion and conquest of Mexico. Subsequently, Havana replaced Trinidad as the main base for Spanish operations against the Central American mainland, but by this time the fertile soil around Trinidad was already replacing gold with sugar cane.

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