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These Christmas Masses, as they were called, were celebrated in the convents and churches, but eventually were moved to the haciendas, farms, and ranches, and finally to the neighborhoods.
As you explore the neighborhood, you’ll come across the historic parish church with its landmark bell tower, and the convents of La Trinidad and San Francisco (it is said that Miguel de Cervantes, creator of the famous Don Quixote, lodged at the latter).
It was burned to the ground by Napoleon’s soldiers in 1808, abandoned in 1835 when all convents were sequestered by the state, and rebuilt in 1874.
In Old Havana, magnificently restored colonial palaces and stately baroque churches and convents crowd pulsating squares.
While much of it is not technically Gothic, it is a remarkable concentration of medieval palaces, convents, and churches.