Necropolis Cristobal Colon
Photographs by Raul L. Rodriguez, A.I.A.
On display September 25, 2008, through January 25, 2009

Since 1980 Miami architect Raul L. Rodriguez has been photographing Havana’s Necropolis Cristobal Colon, a cemetery featuring some of the finest funerary art in the world. Rodriguez has focused on the cemetery’s mausoleums, which represent a wide range of nineteenth and twentieth century architectural styles.

With its extensive grid of streets and its tombs for everyone from leading industrialists to labor unionists, Necropolis Cristobal Colon is truly a “city of the dead” that reflects the broader patterns of Havana’s development.

The exhibition will include approximately 40 of Rodriguez’s large color prints.

Organized by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.