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Convent Tower, Trinidad, Cuba, 1994

The bell tower of the Church and Convent of Saint Francis rises above the cobblestone streets of Trinidad, Cuba, a colonial town so well preserved it's often referred to as a "museum city." Built by Franciscan monks in the early 18th century, the church now houses a museum focusing on the fight against counterrevolutionaries in the early days of communist Cuba.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Wild Mix of Trinidad and Tobago," March 1994, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by David Alan Harvey