Home Cuba: east wind, west wind "Papa" left on a long journey, but his house remains exactly as it was. Papa, or Hemingway to the Havana people, settled at Finca Vigia in 1939. Far enough away from the Bodeguita del Medio (top left) and the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where he found inspiration, to find the peace and quiet to write The Old Man and the Sea, Paris is a Party or The Garden of Eden.

"Papa" left on a long journey, but his house remains exactly as it was. Papa, or Hemingway to the Havana people, settled at Finca Vigia in 1939. Far enough away from the Bodeguita del Medio (top left) and the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where he found inspiration, to find the peace and quiet to write The Old Man and the Sea, Paris is a Party or The Garden of Eden.

In the Vedado district, the attentive visitor will discover here and there beautiful private houses like this one, still inhabited by the same family since the 1950s.
Gleaming old Chryslers, pampered Cadillacs, vintage Buicks: the purr of beautiful American cars preserved since the pre-revolutionary period is as much a part of the Cuban imagination as the rhythms of the salsa, the swirls of cigars or the daiquiris so beloved by Hemingway.
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