Convento de Santa Clara

This guide to the Convento de Santa Clara in Havana traces the young women sent here starting in 1638, some fleeing broken engagements or unaffordable dowries, into a convent that grew to cover three city blocks. You'll hear about the timber-roofed galleries built without a single steel beam and the fountain that has drawn water into the courtyard longer than any other in the city, plus what became of the building after the nuns left for Lawton in 1921. Look up at the original posts still holding that roof in place.