Praça da Sé

Introduction

Cathedral Square is the most beautiful, harmonious of Old Havana's four squares—famous for the towering Baroque Havana Cathedral; one of the old city's most photogenic, artistic corners. The square has old cobblestones, surrounded by 18th-century colonial buildings; on one side the Havana Cathedral (officially St. Christopher Cathedral) is the star—an 18th-century Baroque church known for its unique, slightly asymmetric twin-tower facade (two bell towers of different sizes), built of coral stone with carved stone exterior, described by writers as "music frozen in stone"—solemn, elegant, lively, a masterpiece of Cuban colonial religious architecture. The surrounding colonial mansions are now museums, restaurants and galleries. Strolling this harmonious cobblestone square, looking up at the Baroque cathedral's twin towers, hearing occasional live music—an unmissable stop.

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