There are a great amount of attractive statues in Havana. Some of them are emblematic and classic such as the Christ at the entrance of Havana\u2019s bay or the statue of Jos? Mart? at the Revolution Square.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 It can be very interesting to walk through the capital looking for vivid monuments of famous people of the past.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 Some examples of them are everywhere, coming from different places and times. For example, let us mention a few but representative number of them.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 Very closed to the Havanan Malec?n<\/em> (wall) it can be seen a statue of Jos? Mart?, Cuban National Hero, wearing his classical frock coat and holding his son in his arms.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 In the Avenida del Puerto (harbor avenue) near the trade zone of the bay, closed to the Paula Church, there stands very elegantly Agust?n Lara, the renown Mexican composer.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 This statue was donated to Cuba by the people and the government of Veracruz in November of 2000 and makes us remember his romantic songs.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 The visitor may also see statues of gods such as a marble Neptune that points out with his trident the way to Havana at the entrance of the bay.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 However, less known people\u2019s statues can also be found. That is the case of the one erected to Pierre Le Moyne O?Iberville, famous military man of New France, actually Canada, who was Fleet Admiral of King Louis XIV and died in Havana in 1706.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 This statue was donated by Qu?bec authorities and was placed by the Office of Havana Historian\u2019s workers in November 14th, 1999.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 More unknown is, perhaps, the Japanese Hasehura Rokuemon Tsunenaga, hero of Sendai province in Japan, and whose monument perpetuates him as the first Japanese person who came into Cuba in 1614 in a park of this capital. Having a Japanese-Spanish explanation, and wearing a kimono, this man seems to suggest the 11 850 kilometers that separates both cities. <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Another remarkable statue is the one erected to Francisco de Albear y Lara at the park with the same name immediately after his death in October 24th, 1887. This place is located in the surrounding areas of the famous restaurant El Floridita. <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Don Francisco was the designer of the Havana\u2019s aqueduct, master piece that is still functioning.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 The fountain of this sculpture complex perpetuates the never-ending efforts of this man for providing Havana with a water system.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 During the last years, sculptor Jorge Villa has been a protagonist within the city. Some of his sculptures have been raised in different places of this city: John Lennon quietly sitting in a bench at a park of 16 St., in Vedado; Ernest Hemingway leaning on the bar of El Floridita; devout Teresa of Calcutta seating at a bench of the San Francisco de Asis? basilica; or the \u201cCaballero de Paris\u201d walking as a perennial passer-by of Old Havana.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile, some other immobile and nameless figures of beautiful undressed women keep their non-stop observation of Havana\u2019s days, always animated by the flow and noise of either nationals or foreigners.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Statues are a real Cuban feast that pays homage to those famous persons who were fond of Havana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vivid Sculptures in Havana There are a great amount of attractive statues in Havana. Some of them are emblematic and classic such as the Christ at the entrance of Havana\u2019s bay or the statue of Jos? Mart? at the Revolution Square. \u00a0\u00a0 It can be very interesting to walk through the capital looking for vivid … Continue reading “Vivid Sculptures in Havana”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,239,155,70,143],"class_list":["post-10376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel_4","tag-fond","tag-master","tag-military","tag-trade","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uglich.su\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uglich.su\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uglich.su\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uglich.su\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uglich.su\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uglich.su\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uglich.su\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uglich.su\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uglich.su\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}