2-612-080 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

El Templete, Plaza de Armes, Havana, Cuba, c1910. The small neoclassical Doric chapel on the east side of Plaza de Armas was built in 1828 at the point where Havana's first Mass was held beneath a ceiba tree in November 1519. Inside the chapel are three large paintings of the event by the French painter Jean Baptiste Vermay (1786-1833). Cigar card from the History of Cuba, Geografico Universal, Propaganda de los Cigarros Susini y La Corona , Tabacalera Cubana.