HAVANA AND ITS FAMOUS MALECON (VIDEO)
The Malecón (officially Avenida de Maceo) is a broad esplanade, roadway and seawall which stretches for 8 km (5 miles) along the coast in Havana, from the mouth of Havana Harbor in Old Havana, along the north side of the Centro Habana neighborhood, ending in the Vedado neighborhood. New businesses are appearing on the esplanade due to economic reforms in Cuba that now allow Cubans to own private businesses.
Construction of the Malecón began in 1901, during temporary U.S. military rule.
Havana is inconceivable without its Malecón. So much importance is given, and that the generic name that is synonymous with dock, purchased here and category name is spelled with initial capital letters.
They are little more than seven miles of a wall running east to west and extends between two colonial forts: Castle Point, at the beginning of the Paseo del Prado, and the little castle of La Chorrera, beside the mouth of Almendares River. From this side, the old and new town, with some of its best hotels, monuments and parks across the open sea, blue, simple, democratic, defined as our great poet Nicolás Guillén. A busy street bordering it end to end and each of its four sections has a name that identifies it. But for any habanero is respected, the waterfront, despite its sections, simply name Malecón, the fastest way to connect with Miramar and Marina Hemingway from Old Havana, and which develops during the carnivals in Havana the largest dance floor in the world.
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Cuba’s Malecón and Habana Vieja.
As Havana is inconceivable without that wall and its surrounding satellite populous, is inconceivable without their love Malecón and its fishermen. Since more than one hundred years this work was begun that beautified the city, habaneros did place preference for the ride. And loving couples, swaying in the sea breeze came in search of intimacy: intimacy although inexplicably getting almost sitting beside other couples are staying the same purpose.
This happens especially in the evenings. By day, the Malecon is fishermen. No one knows when they began to appear. Maybe they’ve always been. The people here are, like all fishermen of the world, people quiet, infinite patience, perseverance and an optimism worthy of a better cause and exaggerated to the utmost when referring to his occupation. Although the waters of the area are not free from contamination, remain habitable for many species due to the constant movement of the currents: offshore, the famous Gulf Stream, and earthbound, the coastal countercurrent that Spanish sailors called in the past the eddy of Havana by how difficult it was to large ships entering the harbor. They come with their accoutrements, and deploy them to fish! Although sometimes no fish or poor charge capture only after many hours of slaughter under a blazing sun that drops barrettes lit overhead.
Never mind. Nothing discouraged. They are all one race. They lineage and nobility. Malecon are fishermen, and return the next day for more of the same. The funny thing is that most of them encourages material interest. Just a taste for what they do and then discuss with other fishermen who managed to catch the world’s largest peje that existed only in his imagination and in his desire.
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Arnoldo Varona, Editor.
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