Cuba: Christopher Columbus statue in front of the Catedral de la Immaculada Concepion (Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception), Plaza de Colón, Cárdenas, Matanzas Province

Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from Genoa, Italy, whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile, he initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the 'New World'.

Built on an easy-to-follow grid pattern, Cárdenas is centred on the Catedral de la Immaculada Concepion (c. 1850), a fine old church noted for its stained-glass windows and fronted by a statue of Christopher Columbus sculpted by the Spanish artist José Piquer in 1862.

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David Henley

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