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This paper is concerned with the industries established in the second half of the twentieth century, along Avenida Rancho Boyeros, as an expression of the industrial heritage of the Modern Movement in Cuba. The theme, scarcely addressed in the literature, was a motivation for the development of this inquiry whose results can help in the formation of a national public awareness that values the industrial heritage and its local significance. For the development of this work numerous documentary sources were consulted, both bibliographic and archival. Interviews were also conducted as well as in situ observations, combining empirical and theoretical methods for processing and discussing the results. The findings allowed the identification of modern industries along the axis of Rancho Boyeros in the second half of the twentieth century, its authors and its heritage values, which can serve as an important reference for its recognition and protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The architectural and urban development of Havana during its early I centuries of existence was largely determined by the significance of its port in the intercontinental defensive tactics that the Spanish Crown undertook . in its American dominions. Since the late eighteenth century and mainly when Cuba and Puerto Rico remained as the only Spanish colonies in America, the work of military engineers turned to the interior, oriented to a different defense strategy designed to calm down the craving for independence. Their task then combined military objectives with civil actions that had a major urban significance. This paper focuses on the work of military engineers in the nineteenth century, related to the significant change in scale and image that transformed the Cuban capital over those years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the period of colonial Havana had sculptural works and monuments, first made by foreign artists and then from the late nineteenth century, also by Cuban sculptor. This paper makes a brief review of outstanding examples of sculpture in the Centro Habana municipality and also addresses, for their significance examples located in a border area with Old Havana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cojímar is a small town in the east of Havana city. Founded in the middle of the 16th century, it experienced some development as a spa at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, interrupted only by the exploitation of the Eastern beaches on the Havana seashore. A sustained decline that no other economic activity has been able to stop began at that time together with a significant environmental deterioration. This paper analyses the potentialities and constraints Cojímar faces in recovering its tourism operations without compromising the environment and offers some proposals in this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]