Finca Vigía
Hilltop hacienda kept exactly as its writer-owner left it, typewriter, trophies and fishing boat still in place.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Finca Vigía in Havana opens with an unlikely photograph once hung on its walls: a young Fidel Castro grinning with a marlin, from the day in May 1960 he joined a fishing tournament Ernest Hemingway had founded a decade earlier. You'll hear how the novice competitor won anyway, what Hemingway said when he handed over the trophy, and why it was the only time the two men ever met face to face. The guide walks through the house exactly as Hemingway left it two months later, typewriter on the desk, trophies on the walls, boat waiting in the yard. Look for the drinks trolley still stocked as if he might return.
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