Main entry:

Lobo Montalvo, María Luisa.

Title & Author:

Havana : history and architecture of a romantic city / María Luisa Lobo Montalvo with the collaboration of Zoila Lapique Becali and Alicia García Santana ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox ; prologue by Hugh Thomas.

Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, 2000.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Habana.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-315) and index.
Prologue -- Introduction: My faraway, lost world -- Romantic origins -- A villa is born -- The key to the New World -- The antechamber of the Indies -- The city of palaces -- The foremost city in Spanish America -- The city of columns -- The garden city -- Tradition and modernity -- Beyond Havana -- Epilogue.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Havana, the legendary capital of Cuba, bears the traces of every stage of the island's rich history, from its indigenous traditions to the introduction of European culture in the late fifteenth century to the development of the unique amalgam of these influences that is unmistakably Cuban. In this exquisite volume, author Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo presents the architecture and history of Havana - part of which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site - in an accessible and engaging text and specially commissioned color photographs."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1580930522
9781580930529

Subject:

Architecture Cuba Havana.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Historic buildings Cuba Havana.
Havana (Cuba) Buildings, structures, etc.
Havana (Cuba) History.
Cuba Havana.
Havana (Cuba) Pictorial works.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Lapique Becali, Zoila.
García Santana, Alicia.
Thomas, Hugh, 1931-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213158
Call No.: NA804.H3 L6 2000
Status: Available