Cuba mourns historian who turned Old Havana into world heritage site

Eusebio Leal Spengler, who oversaw the transformation of Cuba’s crumbling Old Havana to an immaculately restored colonial tourist attraction, becoming the de-facto mayor of the historic city centre and one of the nation’s most prominent public intellectuals, has died at the age of 77.

He had been fighting cancer.

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