Just across the harbor (and reachable by cab through a tunnel), the Castle of the Three Kings of the Rock was built in 1589 and it´s impressive to explore its ramparts and evocative interior chambers - along with a superb view out over Old Havana and beyond. A five-minute walk away, the rather more sprawling Fortress of San Carlos of the Cabin (in fact the third largest in the Americas) was constructed to supplement the city´s defense between 1763 and 1774, and after the 1959 revolution became notorious as the headquarters of Che Guevara and the site of "revolutionary tribunals," torture, and executions. Today its various spaces are home to exhibitions of military history, and visitors make a point of showing up every night at 9 pm for the cañonazo ("firing" of a vintage cannon - without a real cannonball, of course - by actors in period uniforms). And of course the views across the harbor over Havana are tremendous.
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