Morro Castle

At the stroke of midnight in Cuba, state television broadcast images of troops at Havana's Morro Castle fort firing 21 salvos of a cannon in honor of the 52d anniversary of former President Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

Millions gather worldwide to ring in 2011 2011

The United States feared the spy ship, which patrolled so close to shore that its sailors could see Havanas famed Morro Castle, might create a flashpoint for a larger conflict.

The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

Memories of the Morro Castle disaster were unpleasantly revived, only four months later, when another Ward Line ship, the Havana, ran aground in January 1935.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

Of these three, the first to capture the headlines was the Morro Castle.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

La Cabaña was a military fortress that sat across the bay from the city, situated right next to the Morro Castle—both the most beautiful and emblematic buildings of colonial times, built to protect the entrance to the bay and defend the city of La Habana.

Havana Salsa Viviana Carballo 2006

La Cabaña was a military fortress that sat across the bay from the city, situated right next to the Morro Castle—both the most beautiful and emblematic buildings of colonial times, built to protect the entrance to the bay and defend the city of La Habana.

Havana Salsa Viviana Carballo 2006

It was October, the sun shone gloriously but the nights cool, the city and its dramatic waterfront with the surf crashing, men angling and boys swimming off the Malecon, lovely and beckoning the Morro Castle loomed splendid across the harbor, the people friendly and at least reasonably prosperous.

Cuba Before Fidel 2006

La Cabaña was a military fortress that sat across the bay from the city, situated right next to the Morro Castle—both the most beautiful and emblematic buildings of colonial times, built to protect the entrance to the bay and defend the city of La Habana.

Havana Salsa Viviana Carballo 2006

LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The waves nearly reached the top of Havana's Morro Castle lighthouse.

CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2005 2005

One day General Lawton, General Wood and I, with Ferguson and poor Tiffany, went down the bay to visit Morro Castle.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992