Habana 500

Havana in time

Year 1575

-The Cabildo grants a license to the Franciscan Order to be installed in the town of San Cristóbal de La Habana, and from here irradiate evangelization to the continent. The construction project of the San Francisco Convent was promoted. It was inaugurated in 159l and definitively finished in 1738.


Year 1577

-The construction of the Castillo de la Real Fuerza (L) is considered finished


Year 1578

- Faithful to the charism of his Order, whose axis was education and preaching - together with mendicant poverty - the Dominicans began their teaching work in Cuba very early, after having settled in Havana in the hermitage of Our Lady of Consolation, where they founded the church of Santo Domingo and began to build the convent of San Juan de Le


Yaer 1579

-JUNE 11.- A cross was placed in the place taken in possession of the Franciscan friars for the construction of the church and convent of San Francisco de Asis.


Year 1581

-The Captain Diego Fernández de Quiñones is named by the King of Spain as mayor of the Castillo de la Real Fuerza.


59 elements in total
Habana 500