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Title: Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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Publisher: Havana : New York : Foster & Reynolds
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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o the Almendares River at Vedado. Ithad long been the desire of the Havana authorities to utilize this space for aparkway and shore drive, and in 1875 General Albear had drawn up a planfor the purpose; this had never been adopted, however, nor did the Ameri-can authorities follow it. Under a project prepared by the Chief Engmeer.Major Wm. M. Black, they built the Malecon and its music stand, andbegan the construction of Gulf Avenue. The Malecon (the Spanish word means embankment or wall) consistsof a substantial sea wall, extending in a curved line from the northwestbastion of La Punta to the west side of the end of the Prado, protectingfor this entire length a broad concrete promenade and a macadamizeddriveway. The wall stands about thirty feet back from the high water line,and an inclined toe with stones projecting above its face breaks the forceof the waves in a storm. In the center of the park thus formed is a musicstand of classical design, with twenty Ionic columns supporting an
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