Prado y Colón Boulevard
Marble-paved colonial boulevard lined with bronze lions, coral stone benches and shade trees.
This guide to the Prado y Colón Boulevard in Havana starts with Karl Lagerfeld sending a Chanel runway down its marble in 2016, past eight bronze lions that have guarded the promenade since 1928, cast from melted-down Spanish cannons. From there it steps back to a Havana Art Biennial, when painter Manuel Mendive filled the same pavement with dozens of people painted as a living jungle herd, and to a performance troupe called The Carpenters marching backward through it in black. You'll hear what each of them was trying to say about this stretch of stone. Stand among the lions to see how little they've moved since 1928.
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