Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas is the oldest town square in Habana Vieja.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: square in Havana, Cuba
- Also known as: “Plaza de Armas, Havana”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cubana and Havana Cathedral.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cubana
Museum
Photo: Deavila, Public domain.
The Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cubana or Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba in Havana, Cuba is the national museum of Natural History, with exhibits of Cuba's plants and animals. It is located in a former U.S. embassy building.
Havana Cathedral
Church
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Havana Cathedral is one of eleven Catholic cathedrals on the island. It is located in the Plaza de la Catedral on Calle Empedrado, between San Ignacio y Mercaderes, Old Havana, Havana, Cuba. Havana Cathedral is situated 270 metres northwest of Plaza de Armas.
Cathedral Square
Photo: Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plaza de la Catedral is one of the four main squares in Old Havana and the site of the Cathedral of Havana from which it takes its name. Originally a swamp, it was later drained and used as a naval dockyard. Cathedral Square is situated 230 metres west of Plaza de Armas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Casablanca and Havana.
Casablanca
Suburb
Casablanca is a ward of the city of Havana, the capital of Cuba, belonging to the municipal borough of Regla. It is situated to the east of the entrance to Havana Harbor.
Havana
Photo: Rastapopulous, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Havana is the capital city of Cuba, and one of the fifteen provinces of the Republic of Cuba. Visitors come to Havana for its music, history, culture, architecture and monuments.
Plaza de Armas
- Categories: square, Plaza de Armas, and recreation area
- Location: Centro Habana, La Habana Province, Cuba, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
23.14022° or 23° 8′ 25″ northLongitude
-82.34957° or 82° 20′ 59″ westOpen location code
76MV4MR2+35OpenStreetMap ID
way 291229411OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q11942010
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Plaza de Armas” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Plaza de Armas (L’Havana)”
- Catalan: “Plaza de Armas”
- Chinese: “武器广场”
- German: “Plaza de Armas”
- Russian: “Пласа-де-Армас”
- Spanish: “plaza de armas”
- Spanish: “Plaza de Armas”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Plaza de Armas”. Photo: Eric Marshall, CC BY 3.0.