Revolutionaries and artists: part 1

The room of mirrors built to resemble the one at the Palace of Versailles

An excerpt from one of Castro's most famous speeches.  Shame about the translation!

The palace was the scene of an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Batista in 1957 - the bullet holes remain.

 Cretins' Corner.  Hmmm.

A cultural double whammy today.  The Museo de la Revolucion followed by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.  The former is housed in the magnificent presidential palace of the 1950s dictator General Fulgencio Batista, and describes in detail the events of the 1959 revolution, through the formation of the socialist state and up to the present, although interestingly the Special Period doesn't really feature.