📍In the words of Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, the stained glass windows are like "an enormous fan of glass open over the interior door, the patio and the hall".
In Cuba, the "colonial style" was first developed in homes with fan-shaped polychrome stained glass windows and wooden moldings that filtered sunlight and are now seen as a symbol of Old Havana, founded in the 16th century.
Later, at the beginning of the 20th century, styles from Europe began to mix among the large mansions of the wealthy families of the capital city, offering an incredible variety of stained glass windows, initially imported from Spain and France, and then locally made.
In Vedado district, a residential where some the most beautiful houses in Havana were built at the beginning of the 20th century, there are some 500 historic stained glass windows. The gardens of these mansions display impressive stained glass windows with floral motifs that combines opaline and the grisaille technique, a type of paint used specifically for stained glass windows and there is a stunning piece of work from the workshop of French master glassmakers Champigneulle.
The art of stained glass flourished over the centuries in Havana and restoration work has allowed these jewels of Cuban architecture to be preserved for generations to come.
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