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 . 56 THR STANDARD CARCEL AND PRESIDIO. Near the foot of the Prado, and occupying one of the most prominentsites in the city, is the immense yellow building of the Havana Carcel,which is not infrequently mistaken by tourists for the Palace. It is used asa Carcel or city jail, with entrance on the Prado, and a Presidio or peni-tentiary for the island, entrance on Zulueta street, and also containsan audiencia or court room. It was
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 . 56 THR STANDARD CARCEL AND PRESIDIO. Near the foot of the Prado, and occupying one of the most prominentsites in the city, is the immense yellow building of the Havana Carcel,which is not infrequently mistaken by tourists for the Palace. It is used asa Carcel or city jail, with entrance on the Prado, and a Presidio or peni-tentiary for the island, entrance on Zulueta street, and also containsan audiencia or court room. It was built in 1839 by Governor-GeneralTacon, chiefly by convict labor of chain gangs made up of runawayslaves, white malefactors and Carlist prisoners from Spain; and it isrecorded that Tacon financed the undertaking with certain public fundswhich, before his time, had been diverted by dishonest ofificials. Thebuilding is 300 by 240 feet, and surrounds a large interior court or patio,which is filled with shrubbery. It has room for 5,000 men; there havebeen at times 1,000 prisoners within its walls. There were 600 here whenthe Americans came to Havana, many of whom had been incarcerat
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