#5 entry- National Hotel and the Museum of the Revolution

We are on the move to the National Hotel to exchange money and check out the famous people that had visited the hotel.

An model of the hotel.

The students are entering the lobby of the hotel.

Looking into the dining room.

Here hangs a plaque of every decade of the visitors to the hotel. Famous celebrities like Nat King Cole, Cary Grant, noted baseball players and many more. See if you can recognize anyone of these rich and famous people.

Outside the hotel you can see evidence of the bunkers and guns that protected the bays of Cuba.

Here is one of the entrances. The group was able to go on a tour the last day but I had  to visit the bathroom instead.. I was so disappointed not to be able to make it.

We leave the hotel Nacional and move onto the Museum of Revolution.

 The museum was the Presidential Palace of all the Cuban presidents from Mario Garcia Menocal to Fulgencio Batista till 1959. It became the Museum of Revolution during the years following the Cuban revolution. Here is where exhibits largely devoted to the period of the war of the 1950's and to the country's post 1959 history.  Around the building in the back are tanks displayed and the engine of the U-2 that was shot down during the missile crisis.

                                                                     
                                              Fidel Castro is displayed in the foyer of the museum

                Caricatures of anti-revolutionists  This is called "the corner of the stupid people"

 The Hall of Mirrors being restored.

 Here is where the President Batista slipped out during the attack. There was a tapestry hiding this door.

Mural of the attack on San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.
Very interesting but not enough time to read and see all the exhibits.
Ciao;)