Miramar is a residential district (zona residencial) of the municipality of Playa, in the city of Havana. Overview Many embassies, including the landmark Russian Embassy, are located in Miramar - in particular on Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue) before called Avenida de las Américas (Avenue of the Americas). Prior to the Revolution, the neighborhood was home to many of Havana's upscale residents. There are many large houses and mansions here. This district and the Country Club (Cubanacán) were the most glamorous spaces in the Havana of the 50s. There are also some of Havana's more modern hotels, such as Hotel Melia Habana, Oasis Panorama Hotel and Occidental Miramar, beaches and private rental houses (known as casas particulares). Also located here is the International School of Havana. Since the late 1990s, several office blocks have been built in a complex called Centro de Negocios Miramar - the "Miramar Trade Center". Points of interest Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue) Casa de Alberto de Armas (1926), a restored Beaux-Arts mansion at Calle 2 by architect Jorge Luis Echarte Reloj de Quinta Avenida at Calle 10, a large clock erected in 1924 in the central median Museum of the Ministry of the Interior (Museo del Ministerio del Interior) at Calle 12 Casa del Habano (between Calles 14 and 16) (also in the Melia Habana near the Miramar Trade Center and Club Habana) Teatro Miramar at Calle 94 Parque de los Ahorcados (Park of the Hanged), between Calles 24 and 26, "shaded by massive jagüey trees, seemingly supported by their aerial roots dangling like cascades of water" Karl Marx Theater (Teatro Karl Marx) in the park Plaza Emiliano Zapata, with a life-size stone statue of Zapata, Mexico’s revolutionary hero Rosita De Hornedo Hotel, now the CIMEX corporation, located in first avenue between 0 and 2. Iglesia de Santa Rita de Casia (at Calle 26) — a modernist church from 1942 which mixes neocolonial and modern features by architect Victor Morales. Features a modernist statue of Santa Rita by Rita Longa Gracious mansions, many of them foreign embassies Iglesia San Antonio de Padua (at Calle 60) — Modernist-style Romanesque church (1949) by architects Eloy Norman and Salvador Figueras Russian Embassy (1988) (between Calles 62 and 66) by architects Alexander Rochegov and Basilio Piasecki Occidental Miramar hotel Hotel Barceló Habana Ciudad (between Calles 76 and 80) Miramar Trade Center Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar (between Calles 80 and 82),