The Parque de la Fraternidad (formerly the Campo de Marte) was built in the 1790s as a military practice range by the Spanish government, It was expanded in 1793 by Belgian engineer Agustin Cramer, and later Bishop Espada improved the lighting of the Campo.

In the seventeenth century, the grounds of what was to become the Field of Mars (Spanish: Campo de Marte) were part of a muddy and impassable area, it was located outsode of the walls that surrounded the town of San Cristóbal de La Habana, and, in spite of its inhospitable location it began to be populaited into storage rooms and corrals for animals.

When the land was analyzed by a public surveyor Don Bartolomé de Flores, in charge of the demarcation and measurement, he found that instead of the original twelve solar mercedados there were twenty-eight and a half solares, so that the sixteen and a half surpluses were declared idle and unattached and relinquished to Doña Petronila Medrano as partial compensation for part of the land owned by her that had been expropriated for the construction of the city wall.

In 1928 it became the Parque de la Fraternidad as it is known today and in commemoration of the Sixth Pan-American Conference held in Havana.

On the initiative of the Sociedad Cubana de Estudios Históricos e Internacionales, several busts of personalities and heroes representative of Latin American thought were erected, including those of Simón Bolivar and Benito Juárez.