The Havana of Padura: a city with virtues and failures

“A city is many cities in time and space and, at the same time, it is one, in a more or less precise space and through the unstoppable course of time.” The phrase is not from any renowned urbanist, although after reading it in Ir to Havana I believe that Leonardo Padura should be taken as such. My trip to the Cuban capital started a few weeks before stepping on the city while reading “the last of Padura” which, in addition to counting the city t…