Napoleon Museum
Florentine-style mansion holding thousands of Napoleonic relics collected by an exiled sugar baron.
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This guide to the Napoleon Museum in Havana asks why a Florentine-style mansion in the city holds Napoleon's sword, coronation robe and death mask, though he never set foot in Cuba. The answer is Julio Lobo, Cuba's sugar king, whose trading could move the world price of sugar and who chased Napoleonic relics across Europe for decades. It follows Lobo as the 1959 revolution came for his mills and bank, and the choice he made rather than accept a government post.
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