Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine October 2018 | Page 243

. . . I love the mixture we have in
Cuba, for sure we have beautiful
beaches, but what I love the most is
to walk around the city and discover
new places and buildings.
I’m an architecture fan and Havana
city is full of buildings with different
architectural styles, colors and sizes.
You can read the history of the
country by its building and it is also
an expression of the Cuban people’s
idiosyncrasies. You can find small
castles built at the beginning of
the 20th century in the middle of a
residential neighborhood, showing
the upper middle class delusion of
grandeur during that period, but
also small houses painted with
lots of colors and the most baroque
décor inside.
Cuban people historically laugh at
their sorrows. This is reflected in our
buildings, sometimes forgotten by
time but still standing, with a tree
growing up within it and becoming
part of its walls, but the building still
stands. Cuban people are like that.
If life gave us lemons, we don’t just
make lemonade, we take it one step
further and we make Mojito
(a traditional Cuban cocktail made with lemon,
rum and mint leaves).
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~ Mariam González, Founder and CEO
Photo by Julio Alvite Piedra