August 22nd, 2008 by admin

Perhaps you interested in the values that can offer the Havana as a tourist destination in the Caribbean, knows or has read about the flagship institution of the Cuban hotels: The Hotel National on Cuba.
Start to add the Hotel National today might be located somewhere other than it occupies at present … Your current location is what most distinguishes it from the map within urban habanera. The hotel is located in the coastal outgoing Punta Brava, on top of the hill almost to the end of Taganana of Caleta de San Lazaro.
It is running the second decade of last century and the Havana and it was missing a luxury hotel. The president of the republic was Gerardo Machado and his cabinet ministers of a man who excelled with time and thanks to his efforts to control the portfolio of Public Works for the stage win Machadista is the motto of “intrepid.” We talked about Carlos Miguel de Céspedes. It is this figure that prompted the idea for the city to build the Hotel Nacional de Cuba.

Its members met with Céspedes and told her that if the government gave the land of the old prison of Havana, the company that was formed to build a magnificent 500-room hotel. It was the intention of the Americans builds the hotel, the more the center of Havana of that time, just at the entrance to Havana Bay, the future hotel would look in front of the lamp of Morro Castle.
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