This beautiful garden is dedicated to the tragic memory of the Princess Diana of Wales (Diana Spencer; 1961-1997) that showed concern for the issues related with the disabled children, AIDS and cancer patients and homeless. The construction project of this memorial garden was carried out by Abies San Miguel and Ernesto Marimón and it was inaugurated in 1998, just six months after her burial. It is one of the few public spaces in the world, dedicated to Princess Diana.

The garden was built in a plot that formerly belonged to the renowned Pedroso family. The colonial house behind the park, considered one of the oldest buildings of the city, was the property of the Captain Pedro Pedroso that was a wealthy slave merchant. It was the main gateway for African captives to Cuba, as it is estimated that up to one hundred thousand slaves would have landed on this site.

The Pedroso house, or the House of Slaves, can be easily distinguished from any point of the bay by its tower of medium height that resembles the small Moorish fortresses of the southern Spain. Mural paintings are discovered on the interior walls of the old mansion. The affluent house from the early 19th century became a tenement house in the last century, so that it was restored. During the reconstruction process traces of a primitive shipyard, as well as abundant ceramic material of a period close the founding of the town San Cristóbal de La Habana were found.

The garden occupies an area of 740 m2. It can be accessed from the Baratillo street by a wrought-iron archway, topped with a crown. A hoop-shaped pond, covered with colored ceramics, is built in the center of the garden. Water squirts from the jets of the pond. At its center, a 3-meter-tall column, titled Totem, is erected. This Cubist column is the work of the artists Alfredo Sosabravo and René Palenzuela. In its upper- and lower part it is made of brick and concrete, lined with stone of jaimanitas, but in its center it is covered with colorful geometric ceramics.A grey marble block in the shape of fluted cylinder on which a pink marble sun rests, stands at the end of the garden. It represents Diana as a light. It is the work of the sculptor Juan Narciso Quintanilla. Trees of various species, such as oak and Brazilian ceiba, and flowers, such as cricket flowers and ferns, are in good harmony in the green areas, divided by gravel pathways. A pergola, formed by arches, adorn the small garden. There is also an engraved Welsh slate in the form of a stone plaque from Althrop, the country estate where Diana grew up. It was donated by the British Embassy that is also the founder of the garden.