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Chinatown
Mr. Lennon in the park Free EBOOK
Bellas Artes Museum
Military museum
the Victor Hugo monument
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Imagine... Victor Hugo supported the Cuban independence movement ... yeah, that guy, the writer of the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miz
Victor Hugo's first mature work of fiction appeared in 1829, and reflected the acute social conscience that would infuse his later work. Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.Claude Gueux, a documentary short story about a real-life murderer who had been executed in France, appeared in 1834, and was later considered by Hugo himself to be a precursor to his great work on social injustice, Les Misérables.
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Hugo became the figurehead of the romantic literary movement with the plays Cromwell (1827) and Hernani(1830).[3]
Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) was published in 1831 and quickly translated into other languages across Europe. One of the effects of the novel was to shame the City of Paris into restoring the much-neglected Cathedral of Notre Dame, which was attracting thousands of tourists who had read the popular novel. The book also inspired a renewed appreciation for pre-Renaissance buildings, which thereafter began to be actively preserved. (from Wikipedia)walk the streets where Jose Marti walked
The poems of José Martí
José Julián Martí Pérez (January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895)
see the Malecón
swim east of Havana on the beaches
see a market, with no GMO food
restaurants and an English PUB... the little rabbit.
come to Cuba and learn some Spanish... practice your conversations
There's the Palenque food court with delicious pork and chicken
see the Cemetery, see Capablanca's grave
Cojimar (where Hemingway kept the Pilar)
========= (954) 646 8246 and I'll take your number so Mario can contact you.
My friend Mario Llorente is a remarkable tour organizer. He begins with a question... "What can you bring and share with the people of Cuba?"
He will be happy to ask, "What do you want to see?" but he really wants to know "What do you want to share?" Why? Because the strongst memories I have of Cuba are the moments when locals were asking me questions. They are universally curious and interested in life outside the Island... and they want to share what they know about their passions, too.
This video gives you a tour of the highlights of my visit to Habana.
The harbor, the major fort
the beaches to the east,
the Malecón
taking photos of people and hearing the question, "Can you send that photo to my cousin in Miami?"
how can we serve each other?
The Cemetery, Ernest Hemingway's home (the estate with a view)
Old Havana, sharing coffee with university students
What do you want to share?
I wanted to share what I had found on the internet and two dozen students at the Foreign Language department of the university of Havana sat through four workshops in April 2013. What an honor to be in a room with students who did not check email or facebook updates on their mobile phones... why? because nobody had smartphones in the room. The students were there to hear what I had to share.
They spoke and understood English and they gave me lots of their attention. If you have a passion, perhaps you want to share it with a group in Havana.... and Mario Llorente can arrange to find that group for you.
You can also go to Cuba Libro and bring some books and magazines to share with the book store.
How about posing with John Lennon (the statue in Lennon Park)...
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