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The granite obelisk, 38 m (124 ft) high, was erected in 1958.
The superb lemon-coloured Art Nouveau building close to the obelisk is home to the American Embassy.
Stand on either of the circular paving stones set between the square’s twin 17th-century fountains and the red granite Egyptian obelisk to appreciate the harmony of the quadruple rows of Doric columns, so perfectly aligned that they seem like a single row.
The obelisk in the piazza’s center, dating from the Egypt of Rameses II (13th century b.c. ), was brought here from the Circus Maximus and re-erected by Pope Sixtus V in 1589.
Hideous high-rise ministry buildings erected in the 1950s by Batista and a giant, tapering concrete obelisk — looking like a rocket launch pad with a pensive José Martí at its foot — provide the scenery.