Plaza de la Revolución is a massive square in Havana's “new city” that is located on a small hill and from which, like in Paris’s Place de l’Étoile, broad avenues fan toward the Vedado, Río Almendares, and the Parque de la Fraternidad. The square is the center of the Cuban government and is surrounded by large, colorless utilitarian buildings built in the 1950s, such as the Ministerio del Interior with its enormous mural of Che Guevara, the 1957 Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, and the Teatro Nacional de Cuba.

All big political rallies are held on Plaza de la Revolución as are some not-so political events, such as a Mass celebrated by Pope Jean Paul II in 1998 that was observed by almost one million people.

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