Ernest Hemingway Museum, Havana. Cuba
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- Calle Vigia y Steinhart, Finca Vigia, San Francisco, Havana City. Cuba
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- (537) 6910809
- Destination: Havana
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It is located in the house of the ranch where the American writer lived for many years. The house has been preserved as it was when Hemingway was living there; everything is kept just as he had it. Personal objects, tens of thousands of books and photographs, as well as some “trophies” won in his frequent hunting adventures are some of the attractions.
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Ernest Hemingway Museum is located in Havana
Capital of Cuba and the country's administrative, political, cultural and scientific center, it is also the capital of two provinces: City of Havana and Havana. Though only around 280 square miles (727 square kilometers) in size-0.65 percent of the archipelago's total area.
The Old Havana and system of forts led UNESCO to declare it a part of world heritage in 1982. Founded on its present site in 1519, the settlement of San Cristobal de La Habana prospered mainly due to its bay, which was a natural port of call for ships sailing to and from the New World. Starting in 1634, because of its strategic location, San Cristobal de La Habana was considered the key to the New World-as attested to by royal letters patent-and the main defense of the West Indies.
The Cuban capital consists of an immense number of buildings in a wide range of architectural styles, built in the course of nearly five centuries. These styles range from the pre-baroque to the baroque, neo-Gothic, neoclassical, eclectic, art noveau and art-deco, to the modern.
Alejo Carpentier, one of Cuba's most famous authors, called it "the city of columns" and focused attention on its streets, which he considered a perennially rich show of life, humanity and contrasts that was bound to entertain any observer.
Over 14 kilometers of excellent beaches lie to the east of the Cuban capital. To the south, a green belt contributes to a healthful atmosphere.
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Hemingway´s home
This was Hemingway´s home, and his last wife´s Mary Welsh, for more than twenty years. Now, it is the most important museum in the world dedicated to the celebrated writer, a passionate and revolutionary man. Here, he wrote "The Old Man and the Sea". The museum displays lots of Hemingway´s personal objects, thousands of books, pictures, animal heads or his "Royal" typewriter -the guides will tell us how Hemingway used to write standing and barefoot-. In the garden, there are spectacular trees like flamboyants, palm-trees, mangos, even a big ceiba -the Iro ko, a god-like tree adored in "santería"-. All in that house leads the visitor to the Havana and international life of Ernest, who in a television interview defined himself with a term for Cuban wandering dogs, this way: "Yo soy un cubano sato" ("I am a Cuban stray dog").
Ernest Hemingway Museum
The Ernest Hemingway Museum offers a plethora of information about the writer's life during the time he spent in Cuba, with many of his personal possessions on display. Along with the pieces of furniture and personal objects, there are also a number of works of art exhibited in the spirit of the famous saying: "First one must persevere".
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