{"id":4481,"date":"2013-03-19T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2013-03-19T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:25:13","slug":"havana-visit-to-the-jose-marti-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/startseite\/havana-visit-to-the-jose-marti-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana – Visit To The Jose Marti Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another of those places in Havana, like the Colon necropolis, that I have passed by numerous times but had never visited before.<\/p>\n
Honey, our Cuban family friend, had a day off from medical university and offered to guide me.<\/p>\n
A nice walk in the shade by the main artery leading to the Plaza de la Revolucion from the Vedado neighbourhood I was staying and half an hour later we were standing in the shade of this imposing monument built in the 50’s for the Cuban national hero.<\/p>\n
See also : http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD_Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n After paying at the booth in different currencies, Honey, getting a discount being a student paying in MN, me paying in cookies and an additional fee for taking pictures, we went inside where a very interesting exhibition was to be found.<\/p>\n Among old documents and pictures of both Marti and the memorial construction were also modern artefacts like a replica of the sword of Simon Bolivar that Hugo Chavez presented to Fidel in 2002.<\/p>\n A cool and aesthetically very appealing place – I liked it.<\/p>\n We then took the lift up to the viewing platform and indeed the vistas of Havana are unique from up there.<\/p>\n Highly recommended to anyone visiting Havana.<\/p>\n Nino<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another of those places in Havana, like the Colon necropolis, that I have passed by numerous times but had never visited before. Honey, our Cuban family friend, had a day off from medical university and offered to guide me. A nice walk in the shade by the main artery leading to the Plaza de Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,1,5],"tags":[1176,88,838,833],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}