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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 
INDIA PARK. 
Campo de Marti was transformed into the Parque Colon, which has/ 
developed with the years and become an attractive pleasure ground with 
palms and shrubs and tropical flowers and fountains. 
In India Park, adjoining Colon, is the well known India Fountain (La 
Fuente de la India) which was presented to the city by Count Villanueva, 
whose estate was here, and after whom the Villanueva station of the 
United Railways takes its name. The fountain is of marble, and was done 
in Rome. The pedestal supports the seated figure of an Indian maiden 
allegorical of Havana. She wears a headdress of feathers and has a quiver 
of arrows. In one hand is held a cornucopia, in the other a shield with 
the Arms of the City; conventional sea monsters complete the design. In 
the old days a Military Band played in India Park every evening from 
eight to nine. 
From here a broad avenue, parked and shaded with laurels, extends 
north; this was formerly called after Queen Isabel III., Parque Isabel 
la Catolica, but is now a part of the Prado. The Pasaje Hotel and the 
Payret Theater front on this part of the Prado connecting India and 
Central Parks. 
