Palacio del Segundo Cabo
Baroque colonial palace whose column bases hide tiny black volcanic stones nobody has ever explained.
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This guide to the Palacio del Segundo Cabo in Havana starts under the arcade on the Plaza de Armas, with something most visitors walk past on the columns. It goes back to 1772 and Colonel Antonio Fernandez de Trebejos y Zaldivar, who began the building as the Royal Post Office, and follows the offices and officials that later passed through its rooms. Best heard standing in the shade of the arcade, close enough to touch a column.
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