Inglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Merced

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Inglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Merced

  • April 14, 2002
  • Rated 2 of 5 by Mutt from Ankara, Turkey
Inglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Merced

The Plaza de los Trabajadores ("Workers Plaza") is a rather dull little square that is the home to the Inglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Merced.

This church built in 1748 and rebuilt in 1848 has a peeling whitewashed exterior and a dull but spacious interior that only hint at what it must have once been like. The church is attached to an active convent and is swarmed by children who pester visitors mercilessly.

By the side of the church is one of the town's tinajones and if you only get to examine one of these large jugs while you're in town this is probably going to be the one, a large dull clay pot full of stagnant rain water, it's about as impressive as they get.

On the corner of the plaza is the Museo Dasa Natal del Ignacio Agramonte, the birth place of Ignacio Agrramonte a cattle rancher who led a local revolt against the Spanish colonial authorities in the late 1860s and early 1870s, it is now a museum of his life.

This wouldn't exactly qualify as a must see in Havana or Santiago de Cuba, but with little else to do in this town it makes a curios place to waste an hour as you wait to get out.

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