Iglesia Jesús de Miramar

Havana


Despite its modernity, Playa cradles Cuba's second-largest church, an aesthetically pleasing neo-Romanesque structure topped by a giant dome. Built in 1948, it protects Cuba's largest pipe organ and – best of all – a set of truly amazing Stations of the Cross painted directly onto the walls by Spaniard Cesareo Hombrados Oñativia in the 1950s.


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