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souvenir home. Meanwhile, the Teatro Martí make wishes; it is a custom that travelers adopt
and the Alicia Alonso Gran Teatro de La Habana and embrace upon finding out about it, and their
host concerts and performances by ballet and thoughts also contain requests for the city.
contemporary dance companies. Every two
years, the Havana Biennial transforms the city Havana captivates, enchants, and that’s why writing
into a giant gallery, welcoming artists from continues about it, and its legends live on over the
around the world and filling the streets with years. And that’s also why so many travelers return
works of art. to it, to a city full of magic and stories, a beautiful
city that, once it has welcomed them, always
Havana is also the city of José Martí, the awaits them.
hero of Cuba’s independence struggles, the
most universal of Cubans. Several sculptures
honor us with his presence, perhaps the most
significant being the one in the Plaza de la
Revolución, where his Memorial is located; the
one of Martí on horseback in Dos Ríos, which
we find in front of the former Presidential
Palace, converted into a museum; or the one
in Parque Central, very close to the National
Capitol, in perfect harmony with the majesty
of the surrounding buildings and the intense
green vegetation.
Many things have been written, and many
more could be written, about Havana, where
for every traveler there is a story, an experience.
Every November, to celebrate its anniversary,
people walk around a historic ceiba tree and

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