
{"id":325732,"date":"2025-07-14T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=325732"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:28:26","slug":"santa-fe-the-port-where-i-anchored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/digital-channel\/gallery\/on-the-road-gallery\/santa-fe-the-port-where-i-anchored\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Fe, the port where I anchored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The coastal town of Santa Fe, in western Havana, was the port where I anchored when I moved to the capital at the beginning of this century. I didn\u2019t choose it: it was simply where I had shelter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That little apartment at the entrance to the town had belonged to my aunts Alicia and Vicky, the first to take flight from our native Holgu\u00edn. Then, in the late 1990s, my brother inherited it, and finally, I ended up there, with the same furniture bearing witness to the family\u2019s passage. In other words, Santa Fe became part of my story long before I knew it would one day be my home.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325738\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-7-1140x858-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325738\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-7-1140x858-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-7-1140x858-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-7-1140x858-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-7-1140x858-1-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-7-1140x858-1-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-7-1140x858-1-750x564.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The town has a history that seems taken from a tale told at dusk, with the smell of salt and charcoal. At the end of the 18th century, a small village was built by humble hands: fishermen, charcoal makers and quarry workers. It was not yet by the sea, but a few kilometers inland, in an area that was part of the old Taoro family fiefdom. That first settlement was called Santa Ana, in honor of a Black woman known for her healing powers, a kind of local healer to whom everyone turned.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325737\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-5-1140x758-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325737\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-5-1140x758-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-5-1140x758-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-5-1140x758-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-5-1140x758-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-5-1140x758-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-5-1140x758-1-750x499.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishermen at the pier. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But fire twice razed everything. First in 1903, then in 1908. The settlement was reduced to ashes. The few remaining inhabitants went to ask for land from Do\u00f1a Concepci\u00f3n Garc\u00eda, Led\u00f3n\u2019s widow and owner of the Taoro estate. She, considering the land by the sea to be arid and unproductive, agreed without hesitation. Thus was born the new town, now on the edge of the coast, with a view to the horizon.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325735\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-3-1140x758-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325735\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-3-1140x758-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-3-1140x758-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-3-1140x758-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-3-1140x758-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-3-1140x758-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-3-1140x758-1-750x499.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Puntilla beach in Santa Fe. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legend has it that, on a festive night, amid improvised verses and spirits, someone proposed the name that baptized it forever: Santa Fe. A verse read: \u201cThe second little beach of Santa Ana that was lost has burned&#8230;and the neighbors, acting in good faith, want to change its name to Santa Fe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325739\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-8-1140x758-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325739\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-8-1140x758-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-8-1140x758-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-8-1140x758-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-8-1140x758-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-8-1140x758-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-8-1140x758-1-750x499.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family on a bicycle, an emblematic scene. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325744\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-14-1140x758-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325744\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-14-1140x758-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-14-1140x758-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-14-1140x758-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-14-1140x758-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-14-1140x758-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-14-1140x758-1-750x499.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the streets of Santa Fe that floods after a downpour. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then came times of splendor. Starting in 1945, the place was filled with summer homes built by families from Havana\u2019s middle and lower middle bourgeoisie. Those who could escape the asphalt and noise found a haven of peace here, with morning performances in clubs, dancing, gambling in a casino and nautical activities. Santa Fe became a town with a life of its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But one day, decline came. The town aged, its clubs closed, the facades peeled and the parties became less frequent.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325742\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-12-1140x758-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325742\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-12-1140x758-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-12-1140x758-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-12-1140x758-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-12-1140x758-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-12-1140x758-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-12-1140x758-1-750x499.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cafeteria on 5th Avenue in Santa Fe, one of the busiest, now completely abandoned. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I arrived, many decades later, only a few echoes of that past remained. Even so, I lived in one of those 1950s buildings, right next to the old social club, steps from the ocean. From my window, I had the most beautiful view I\u2019ve ever enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325745\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-1140x583-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325745\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-1140x583-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-1140x583-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-1140x583-1-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-1140x583-1-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-1140x583-1-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-1140x583-1-750x384.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The seascape from my window. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Living in Santa Fe has that strange quality of being simultaneously close and far from the city\u2019s epicenter. It\u2019s barely a dozen kilometers from Havana\u2019s Malec\u00f3n or the Coppelia ice cream parlor in Vedado. But in real terms \u2014 with the disastrous situation of Cuban public transportation \u2014 it\u2019s almost like living in another province. There are days when one feels isolated, and others when that distance becomes a relief.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325743\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-13-1140x758-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325743\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-13-1140x758-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-13-1140x758-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-13-1140x758-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-13-1140x758-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-13-1140x758-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-13-1140x758-1-750x499.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Town scenes in the city. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325736\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-4-1140x758-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325736\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-4-1140x758-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-4-1140x758-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-4-1140x758-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-4-1140x758-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-4-1140x758-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-4-1140x758-1-750x499.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Fe pier. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325741\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-10-1140x720-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325741\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-10-1140x720-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-10-1140x720-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-10-1140x720-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-10-1140x720-1-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-10-1140x720-1-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-10-1140x720-1-750x474.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Puntilla, Santa Fe\u2019s emblematic beach. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santa Fe is a town, with everything that entails: the slowness, the neighborhood, its own rhythm, the obligatory greeting, the same dog sleeping on the sidewalk every morning. At the same time, living there requires a daily crossing into another dimension: Havana, the big city. That routine of coming and going between two worlds always seemed fascinating to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_325740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325740\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-9-1140x755-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325740\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-9-1140x755-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-9-1140x755-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-9-1140x755-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-9-1140x755-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-9-1140x755-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-9-1140x755-1-750x497.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An afternoon on the coast, at the old Juan Manuel M\u00e1rquez social club. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there\u2019s the sea. The same one that licks the walls of Old Havana, that rages against the Malec\u00f3n wall, that hugs the coast of Miramar. But seen from Santa Fe, that sea is different. Closer, more intimate, more ours. Without the roar of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santa Fe, with its quiet streets and forgotten stories, is also a place of return. Whoever has lived there, even for a while, always returns with their memories.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halfway between city and town, between the distance and the proximity of the center of the capital, it recalls my first home in Havana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3262,"featured_media":325734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34912],"tags":[8863,19256,14890],"ppma_author":[33930],"class_list":["post-325732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-road-gallery","tag-cuban-society","tag-featured","tag-photography"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Santa Fe, the port where I anchored | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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