sentences:  The building was constructed on sixty acres of land that had been donated and was to be used as the main building of the Colegio de Belén, which had been opened since 1854 within the premises of the convent of the same name in Old Havana, those premises had become unsuitable and badly located due to the change of atmosphere in the neighborhood and the growth of the city.The project was designed by the Cuban architectural firm of Morales & Cia (Leonardo Morales y Pedroso) in 1925 an unlimited budget for designing a religious school, the Jesuit Colegio de Belén.The result was a monumental pan-optical edifice with an extensive neoclassical facade perpendicular to the chapel and four large courtyards with three stories of porticoed galleries to link nine radial pavilions.