Teatro Tacón

La Habana, Italy

The Teatro Tacón (Tacón Theatre) opened in 1838 in Havana, Cuba. Its auditorium contained 2,750 seats. It was built by Pancho Martí, a businessman from Barcelona who moved to Havana, and named after Miguel Tacón y Rosique, Governor of Cuba from 1834 to 1838. In 1847 Bottesini's opera Cristoforo Colo

mbo premiered there. By 1855, so many people attended events that the city issued parking regulations for carriages on performance nights.

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Nearby

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Old Havana monumenti · 0.2 km away
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Real Fábrica de Tabacos Partagás monumenti · 0.3 km away
Teatro Martí theatre · 0.3 km away
Benito Juárez monumenti · 0.4 km away
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes musei · 0.4 km away
Fuente de La India monumenti · 0.4 km away