Photo: 123RF By: Pedro Pérez Rivero As we are preparing for the celebration of the half millennium of the township of San Cristóbal de La Habana, the oldest images we usually remember are related to the historic center, declared a World Heritage Site in 1982. However, it is fair to recognize the existence of another colonial Havana, outside the wall that protected the city from the 17th to the 19th centuries. One of the first extramural settlements was that of Guadalupe, built around a hermitage from 1716 dedicated to this Catholic saint. Therefore, that rural village can be considered within Havana's founding historicity. Even more if you take into account that it was the intramural neighbors’ main food supplier, since it had abundant farming sites; hence its later name of Los Sitios (The Sites). The numerous vegetable gardens were tended to mostly by free blacks, even those who arrived [...]