Cuba - 2020
In Cuba for the 5th time, maybe the last time. A journey to old and mainly new places, we went from Santiago de Cuba to Baracoa - Moa - Rafael Freyre - Holguin - Manati - Camagüey - Moron - Remedios/Caibarien - Sagua la Grande - Cardenas - Hershey/Camilo Cienfuegos - Havana. Architecture (a lot of Art Deco), sugar mills (mostly abandoned), railway facilities and steam locomotives were the main su…
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Edificio Bacardi
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Edificio Bacardi - Art Deco
Edificio Bacardi - mailbox
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Edificio Bacardi - door
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Edificio Bacardi - look up
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Hotel Plaza - La Habana
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Hotel Plaza - La Habana
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The Plaza Hotel was founded by Captain Walter Fletcher Smith, and was built from an existing colonial building. It was designed by Ricardo Galbis Abella, and constructed by the New York firm of Purdy and Henderson, Engineers. The hotel opened in 1906 and was inaugurated in 1909.
A casino was opened in the hotel during the 1950s. It was owned by Philadelphia crime family member Angelo Bruno, along with Joseph "Hoboken Joe" Stassi and his son Joe Stassi Jr. Stassi was an associate of mobster Meyer Lansky. The casino was destroyed by mobs in early January 1959 as Fidel Castro's rebel army overtook Havana
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Mr. Sad was here
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"No hay Carneo" would mean "there is no meat", but "No hay Craneo" would mean "there is no skull".....I don't know.
La Habana - Art déco
La Florida - Floridita
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Well known for being a favourite bar of Ernest Hemingway drinking his Daiquiri. Therefore expensive and more tourists than Cubans.......
La Moderna Poesia
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La Moderna Poesia
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Another Art déco building in Havana is the library and bookstore "La Moderna Poesia". The bookstore is one of the best known since the late 19. century. The building, which you see here was built in 1935.
La Habana - facades
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La Habana - pura vida
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pig's head to go
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Parque Cristo
Bar El Dandy
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