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Revolutionary Sites

Salon de los Espejos (Hall of Mirrors) at the Museo de la Revolución
Museo de la Revolución
1 attack. The hospital wing where they
slept is now a museum (see p87),
The struggle for independ-
ence, the effort to topple Batista, while Fidel’s private room with
and the subsequent building of its marble bath room contains a
socialism are highlighted in this collection of the books he read
museum (see p13). It is housed in the during his years of incarceration.
former presi dential palace, which
Granma Memorial
was built in 1920 and fitted with 3
lavish interior decoration. The MAP V4 • Calle Colón, Havana
caricatures in the “Corner of Cretins” • 7862 4091 • Open 9am–5pm daily
poke fun at Batista and at US presi- • Adm
dents Reagan, and Bush Sr and Jr. The Granma, the vessel in which
Castro sailed to Cuba with his
Presidio Modelo
2 guerrilla army, is displayed within
This model prison, completed
a glass case in an open-air plaza
in 1936, accommodated Fidel and to the rear of the Museo de la
Raúl Castro as well as 25 other Revolución. Exhibits at the memorial
revolutionaries sentenced to impris- include military hardware left over
on ment following the Moncada from the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Mausoleo y Museo
4
del Segundo Frente
MAP P5 • Avenida Frank País, Mayarí
Arriba • (22) 42 5749 • Open 9am–
4:30pm Mon–Sat, 9am–noon Sun
The small town of Mayarí Arriba
commemorates combatants of the
Second Front, led by Raúl Castro.
The complex includes a museum
exhibiting armaments and
warplanes, and a landscaped
mausoleum, framed by royal palms,
Presidio Modelo includes the future grave of Raúl.

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