Source: Photograph (2010) by WTL© on site in the Colón Cemetery (Necrópolis de Colón) in La Habana.
Comments: This immense cemetery covers 135 acres and houses the burial sites of more than 800,000 people. It is one of the largest in the world. It was designed in 1860 by Calixto de Loira and it was constructed from 1871 to 1886. The deceased from large socio-economic segments of Havana's population have been are are still buried here.
Humanities questions: (A) What other important place in Havana mentioned in these Havana Web pages is named for Columbus? (B) Compare and contrast this cemetery with the equally famous Cementerio de la Recoleta in Buenos Aires (=> Buenos Aires #7). (C) Taking into consideration this cemetery's dates mentioned above, what is the relationship between this urban humanities project (i.e., the design and construction of a cemetery, especially a masterpiece of a cemetery such as this one) and the Spanish colonial empire?
Additional images: See: => Havana #26a; => Havana #26b; => Havana #26c.