The Capitolio, built in 1929, as copy of the Capitol building in Washington, but importantly, a couple of feet taller.

Now a museum, it was previously the centre of the Cuban government when it was under dictatorship.

Next to the Capitolio is the Gran Teatro de La Habana, one of the world’s largest, purpose-built, opera houses. Like many such monumental buildings in Cuba, it is no longer used for its original purpose and is in sad need of maintenance.

Across the road from the Capitolio are these houses. I wouldn’t imagine that the Capitol building in Washington overlooks quite so many washing lines on balconies.

The symbolic city lions on Paseo del Prado. The Paseo del Prado is a very picturesque boulevard leading away from the Capitolio. I never did find out why the Lion is supposed to symbolise Havana, but at least they are more active than the sedate ones in Trafalgar Square.