Sancti Sprirtus (Espiritu Santo), Cuba, North America
 
 
Year1514latitude: 21° 56'
longitude: -79° 26'
Period
Initiator(s)Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar
Planning organizationSpain
Nationality initiator(s)Spanish
Designer(s) / Architect(s)
Design organization
Inhabitants132,466 (2002)
Target population
Town website
Town related linkshttp://www.guije.com/pueblo/avillas/sancti/index.htm
Literature

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 
Sancti Spiritus was founded in 1514 and it is one of the seven towns that Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (conquerer and governer of Cuba for Spain) founded on Cuba. The town was moved land inwards in 1522 because of a mosquito plague. Later spanish colonial cities follow the principles that are determined in the the Laws of the Indies that was written in 1523. This town therefore couldn't have followed these exact principles. Like the towns that were build according to the principles written down in the Laws of the Indies, Trinidad has a central square where the main church and the town hall are to be found. In contrast, the town doesn't follow a gridiron.

source: Ellen van Holstein

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