Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen

Santiago de Cuba


You can dig deeper into Santiago's ecclesiastical history in this tumbledown construction, a hall church dating from the 1700s that is the final resting place of Christmas-carol composer Esteban Salas (1725–1803), one-time choir master of Santiago de Cuba's cathedral.


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