Traditionally visited by hundreds of national and foreign tourists, the place is very peculiar due to the lush vegetation surrounding it and the big house that still keeps the original atmosphere with the dissimilar belongings that accompanied Hemingway until July 1960, when he left the island not suspecting that he would never come back again.
Outstanding is the white color of the walls and
also the posters and painting with taurine motifs made by French painter
Roberto Domingo, as well as the heads of the animals Hemingway hunted during
his two safaris to Africa, an experience that
he described in some of his novels.
A collection of 8,000 books make up the large
library, right next to a spacious room for guests and a big dining room with
Spanish furniture.
On a shelf, in front of one window, there is Hemingways last photo with his wife in this house in 1960. Every detail has been preserved in this restoration with the desire to keep this cultural and architectural jewel as the magnificent legacy left by Hemingway to the Cubans, which was donated to Cuba by his wife, Mary Wehls, in August 1961.
(2007-05-11)"
Footnote: The author of this article is a cultural writer for several media outlets in Cuba.
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