Abstract
Authors have been conducting the field research under the title ‘Origin, Transformation, Alteration and Conservation of Urban Space of Colonial cities’ since 1999. This paper discusses the characteristics of the Spanish colonial cities established in Cuba focusing on Cienfuegos as a typical urban model. This study has been accomplished based on the analysis of old maps corresponding to colonial Spanish period and field survey.As cartographic database, the maps of Cienfuegos city from AGI(The Archive of the Indies in Seville- Archivo de Indias de Sevilla), Museo Naval (Naval Museum of Spain) and Historical Museum of Cienfuegos. Through the analysis of maps is possible to follow the urban process of the Cienfuegos city, from 20 years before of the foundation (1820) until the present. We clarified the original model and transformation of Cienfuegos based on the analysis of block size, block division, and plot subdivision.
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