View of Trinidad through time

Trinidad 1930–2017 15 photos of this spot

15 photographs taken at the same spot in Trinidad, spanning 1930–2017 — 3 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Calle Cristo in Trinidad, Cuba, photographed in 1930. The town, founded in the early 16th century, preserves a dense core of colonial-era streets and buildings from its sugar-trade prosperity.

Trinidad - Calle Cristo 1930 Calle Cristo in Trinidad, Cuba, photographed in 1930. The town, founded in the early 16th century, preserves a dense core of colonial-era streets and buildings from its sugar-trade prosperity.

Calle Cristo, Trinidad, Cuba, circa 1930 A further view of Calle Cristo in Trinidad, Cuba, taken around 1930, showing the cobbled streets of this well-preserved Spanish colonial town in central Cuba.

Trinidad - Palacio de Brunet 1935 The Palacio Brunet, a colonial-era mansion built by a wealthy sugar-planting family in Trinidad, Cuba, is pictured in this 1935 photograph. Trinidad's historic centre was later designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.

Trinidad (Kuba) 04 2003 A street in Trinidad, Cuba, photographed in 2003, shows the town's cobblestone lanes and pastel-colored colonial houses. Trinidad was founded in 1514 and grew wealthy from the sugar trade in the 19th century.

Centro histórico de Trinidad 2006 Trinidad's historic centre, founded by Spanish colonists on Cuba's southern coast, is known for its cobblestone streets and pastel-coloured colonial houses. This 2006 photograph documents part of the old town, which was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.

View of Trinidad 2006 This 2006 photograph offers a view over Trinidad, Cuba, taking in the red-tiled roofs and colonial architecture of the town's well-preserved historic centre on the island's southern coast.

Streets of Trinidad 2006 A narrow street in Trinidad, Cuba, photographed in 2006, shows the cobblestones and low colonial houses characteristic of the town's historic centre, largely unchanged since the nineteenth century.

Streets of Trinidad, Cuba 2006 Trinidad's streets, laid out during Cuba's colonial sugar boom, still carry the original cobblestones and low colonial facades that earned the town its UNESCO World Heritage status. This 2006 photograph documents that historic streetscape.

La Plaza Mayor de Trinidad yace verdaderamente lustrosa ante el turista 2011 Trinidad's Plaza Mayor in Cuba, photographed in 2011. The square is bordered by colonial mansions built on wealth from the sugar plantations that once surrounded the town, part of a district preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Trinidad Kuba 07 anagoria 2012 Another Trinidad street, photographed in February 2012. Narrow cobbled roads lined with single-story colonial houses typify this Cuban town, whose historic core has changed little since the 1800s.

Palacio Brunet - Trinidad - 02 2017 A different 2017 view of Palacio Brunet, one of the grand nineteenth-century residences bordering Plaza Mayor in Trinidad, Cuba.

Plaza Mayor - Trinidad - 03 2017 Trinidad's Plaza Mayor, photographed again in 2017 from another angle, remains the social and historic center of this UNESCO-listed Cuban colonial town.

Palacio Brunet - Trinidad - 03 2017 A third 2017 photograph of Palacio Brunet in Trinidad, Cuba, documenting the mansion's colonial facade facing the town's main square.

Iglesia de la Santísima - Trinidad - 03 2017 A further 2017 view of the Parroquial Mayor de la Santisima Trinidad, the parish church that dominates one side of Trinidad's Plaza Mayor.

Casa de la Musica - Trinidad - 05 2017 The Casa de la Musica is an open-air venue on the steps beside the Iglesia de la Santisima in Trinidad, Cuba, known for live Cuban music performances in the evening. This photograph is from 2017.