Havana Sights

Museo EL Templete

#147 of 413 things to do in Havana

#268 of 1169 things to do in Cuba

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  • Address
    • Plaza de Armas
  • Price
    • admission CUC$2
  • Hours
    • 8:30am-6pm

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The tiny neoclassical Doric chapel on the east side of the Plaza, known as the Museo El Templete, was erected in 1828 at the point where Havana’s first Mass was held beneath a ceiba tree in November 1519. A similar ceiba tree has now replaced the original. Inside the chapel are three large paintings of the event by the French painter Jean Baptiste Vermay (1786–1833).

 

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