Iglesia del Espiritu Santo

This guide to the Iglesia del Espiritu Santo in Havana opens in 1953, when workers cracked open a chamber beneath the floor and found rows of burial vaults older than the city's grand cemetery. You'll hear how free Black stonemasons raised the coral-stone chapel around 1635 without carving or gilding, how the bell tower and side nave grew over the next two centuries, and who fitted the clock still running in that tower since 1808. Look at the plain stone walls before you head toward the altar.