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Havana<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is an open, feverish, bustling city; an extroverted and sensual city that impudently throws many intimacies and frustrations, joys and hardships on its streets.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the Cuban capital is, at the same time, a city with its limits and introversions, with its fears and cautions. A grilled city.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Havana grille. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Havana\u2019s grilles have been, from their earliest years, artifice and ornament. But also usefulness and protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Superb, exquisite, beautiful grilles, the work of experienced masters that have adorned and protected for decades, or centuries, windows and doors, corridors and balconies, mansions and neighborhood houses, old fortresses and gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wooden grilles were typical in colonial Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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True works of art survive in the midst of the deterioration of the buildings. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iron grilles of illustrious buildings, preserved or in disrepair, and also covered with wooden balusters in old stately windows.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Entrance to the Templete. Old Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In recent years some have tried to return to classic forms. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Parque de la Fraternidad. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the same time, over time, new generations of grilles have been born in the city. They do not exhibit the luxury of yesteryear and put use before beauty, although some do not give up an aesthetic profile.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Functional grilles that prioritize use over beauty can be seen throughout the city. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pragmatic grilles, without rendering accounts and contingencies. Crisis grilles, to safeguard home assets rather than to show off from the outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The art of Havana grilles. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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For decades and decades, they have beautified the facades of buildings that today barely resist the onslaught of time. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In the colonial period, wooden and metal grilles coexisted. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is how they coexist today: simple and luxurious, solid and flimsy, preserved and in ruins, dealing with rust and precariousness or protected by the better fortune of their owners.<\/span><\/p>\n

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La Fuerza Fortress. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beautiful Havana grilles. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our photojournalist <\/span>Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez<\/b><\/a> brings us closer to the grilles of Havana this Sunday with his lens. Today, through the grilles, is another graphic journey through a city of contrasts and contradictions that is now entering the year of its 505th anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The art represented on grilles. Havana\/2024. Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Metal embroideries. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Colonial facade. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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