Cárcel

Preserved in Parque de los Enamorados (Lovers' Park), surrounded by streams of speeding traffic, is a surviving section of the colonial Cárcel (Tacón Prison), built in 1838, where many Cuban patriots including José Martí were incarcerated.

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