Only 20 meters long and three meters wide, Enna Street is the shortest street in the Havana capital.This street, full of cobblestones, is located in Old Havana near the El Templete monument. It has received several names throughout history such as: Callejón de la Ceiba, El Boquete de la Ceiba, Narciso López, or Ceiba del Templete.

This small street, created at the beginning of the XVI century, had the original name El Boquete de la Ceiba, but since 1851, the Captain General of Cuba, José Gutiérrez de la Concha, had it named Enna, in honor of the General, Second Corporal, Manuel Enna, who died in August 1851 as a result of wounds received in the action of Cafetal de Frías, in Pinar del Río, fighting the men who came in the second annexationist expedition captained by Narciso López.

This street was witness in November 1519 of the first foundational mass of the Village of San Cristóbal de La Habana in the name of the Kings of Spain.This small street is visited by many national tourists and from other parts of the world who also appreciate the presence of artists who act as living statues, as well as small craft stalls and children from the neighborhood playing.

Village of San Cristobal de La Habana

It was the last of the seven villages founded on the island of Cuba, in this case by the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez, under the orders of Diego Velázquez. On November 16, 1519, in the shade of a Ceiba tree that existed there, almost in front of the sea, where the monument El Templete is located since 1828, the first mass and the first town council were held, and the town was declared founded, with the name of San Cristóbal de La Habana. Its historical, architectural and, above all, cultural heritage, expressed in the fusion between Europeans, Africans and aborigines at the beginning, together with other more contemporary ethnic and cultural components, make the city a major recipient of international tourism and the center of national life.