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Plaça de les Havaneres
Download date: 10/04/2025

This square combines children, recreation and rest areas. Its name is linked to the indianos because it recalls the songs these adventurers brought back from Cuba.
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This square pays homage to the songs from the former colony of Cuba in the mid-19th century. The first to sing them were travellers, merchants and sailors who travelled the waters of the Atlantic to make their fortune overseas. The lyrics of the first habaneras evoke exotic Caribbean landscape and tell us stories about the marine world. No wonder then, that the habaneras are deeply rooted in the fishing towns of the Catalan coast, where they used to be sung in taverns, accompanied by rum. The neighbourhood also has its own sardana song entitled Els Indians, written by Joan Guirao and set to music by Tomàs Gil in 1987. The song closes with a tribute to those who, according to popular tradition, founded the neighbourhood: “Here is our tribute / for those who knew to come back / and who founded with wisdom and joy / the old district of Els Indians”.

Location and contact
Location and contact
Plaça de les Havaneres
- Address:
- C Jordi de Sant Jordi, 5
- Districte:
- Sant Andreu
- Neighborhood:
- el Congrés i els Indians
- City:
- Barcelona
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