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 Nueva Paz 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, maps of 26 cuban cities are included among 7,152 images and maps from AGI (The Archive of the Indies in Seville- Archivo de Indias de Sevilla), four of which are plans for Nueva Paz. Santa Cruz de Mompox who established Nueva Paz prepared two types of city plan, both of which were not implemented.
We clarified the original model and transformation of Nueva Paz based on the analysis of block size, block division, and plot subdivision.