Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Buen Viaje


On Parque Martí (the only plaza in Cuba with two Catholic churches), the 18th-century Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Buen Viaje is in the middle of a long-overdue and lengthy restoration. It is named after a statue of the Virgin Mary taken there by sailors in 1600.


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