Vivid Sculptures in Havana

There are a great amount of attractive statues inNovember 14th, 1999.
Havana. Some of them are emblematic and classic  More unknown is, perhaps, the
such as the Christ at the entrance of Havana's bayJapanese Hasehura Rokuemon Tsunenaga, hero of
or the statue of JoséSendai province in Japan, and whose monument
Martí at the Revolution Square.perpetuates him as the first Japanese person who
  It can be very interesting to walkcame into Cuba in 1614 in a park of this capital.
through the capital looking for vivid monuments ofHaving a Japanese-Spanish explanation, and wearing a
famous people of the past.kimono, this man seems to suggest the 11 850
  Some examples of them arekilometers that separates both cities.
everywhere, coming from different places and times.  Another remarkable statue is the
For example, let us mention a few but representativeone erected to Francisco de Albear y Lara at the
number of them.park with the same name immediately after his death
  Very closed to the Havananin October 24th, 1887. This place is located in the
Malecón (wall) it can be seen a statue ofsurrounding areas of the famous restaurant El
José Martí, Cuban NationalFloridita.
Hero, wearing his classical frock coat and holding his  Don Francisco was the designer of
son in his arms.the Havana's aqueduct, master piece that is still
  In the Avenida del Puerto (harborfunctioning.
avenue) near the trade zone of the bay, closed to  The fountain of this sculpture
the Paula Church, there stands very elegantlycomplex perpetuates the never-ending efforts of this
Agustín Lara, the renown Mexicanman for providing Havana with a water system.
composer.  During the last years, sculptor
  This statue was donated to CubaJorge Villa has been a protagonist within the city.
by the people and the government of Veracruz inSome of his sculptures have been raised in different
November of 2000 and makes us remember hisplaces of this city: John Lennon quietly sitting in a
romantic songs.bench at a park of 16 St., in Vedado; Ernest
  The visitor may also see statuesHemingway leaning on the bar of El Floridita; devout
of gods such as a marble Neptune that points outTeresa of Calcutta seating at a bench of the San
with his trident the way to Havana at the entranceFrancisco de Asis´ basilica; or the
of the bay."Caballero de Paris" walking as a perennial passer-by
  However, less known people'sof Old Havana.
statues can also be found. That is the case of the  Meanwhile, some other immobile
one erected to Pierre Le Moyneand nameless figures of beautiful undressed women
O´Iberville, famous military man of Newkeep their non-stop observation of Havana's days,
France, actually Canada, who was Fleet Admiral ofalways animated by the flow and noise of either
King Louis XIV and died in Havana in 1706.nationals or foreigners.
  This statue was donated by  Statues are a real Cuban feast
Québec authorities and was placed bythat pays homage to those famous persons who
the Office of Havana Historian's workers inwere fond of Havana.