HAVANA (Reuters) - After eight years of restoration work, Cuba on Thursday re-opened to the public the doors of its Capitol, an imposing neoclassical gem previously shunned as a symbol of U.S. imperialism now to become the seat of its national assembly.
Built in 1929 to house Cuba’s Congress and inspired by Washington's Capitol, it was swiftly repurposed after Fidel Castro' 1959 leftist revolution along with other buildings seen as testament to corrupt governments too cosy with the Americans.
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