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Havana's Chinese Cemetery - Havana
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Havana's graveyard: The graveyard of Havana
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  • Updated By Alain_Smeets on July 1, 2003
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    The graveyard of Havana is 56 hectares big and gets 40 to 50 new “inhabitants” everyday. This place is huge. During our visit, we could see only a small part of it and we saw several funeral-cars driving through the main gate.

    Walk around and explore the luxurious graves and listen to the explanation of a guide, that's quiet interesting when you hear about the symbolic behind the statues and pillars and.... check it for yourself.

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    Havana's graveyard: Chinese Cemetery
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  • Updated By mim95 on August 7, 2004
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    The Chinese cemetery opened its door in late 1800s. It has a Chinese style gate with a Chinese poem on the two sides of the gate. Some of the tombs have dragons and lions statues on them, some have Chinese style columns and designs. A little background of the history of Chinese in Cuba can explain why they have their own cemetery:

    Thousands of Chinese went to Cuba in mid-1800s for tough labour works in unbearable conditions on the sugarcane fields. Many of them were tricked or lured, thinking that they would be going to the "Gold Mountain" in San Fransisco.

    After the liberations from Spain in late-1800s, many settled in Havana and opened shops and restaurants just outside the city wall. Chinatown flurished for the next 60 years or so, over 100,000 Chinese immigrants were in Havana at the boom. Interracial marriage was common as very few who went to Cuba was woman.

    Unfortunately, after Castro went into power in 1959, many left for the US as private businesses were seized. Today, only a few hundreds of the original immigrants remained. This is reflected in the cemetery too as there are some graves that are in bad shapes, some are so old that you cannot see the words any more. Many are afraid that the Chinese heritage will soon be lost in Cuba without immigrations. The good news is that there are some desendents who are still interested to learn the language, art and culture.

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  • Address: Calle 26, Vedado
  • Directions: Southwest of Necropolis Cristobal Colon, on Calle 26 near Calzada de Zapata

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    Havana's graveyard: Cementerio de Colón
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    The cemetery, located just east of the Plaza de Revolution.
    It contains many monumental tombs and mausoleums, chapels and family vaults.
    This crying lion hit me !! :)

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    Havana's graveyard: rest in peace in the city
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