Stairs at the Museo de la Revolucion in Havana.


Two female staff look bored as they gaze over the grand white marble stairway entrance to the Museo de la Revolucion in Havana. Those steps look pretty now but in 1957 they were flowing with the blood of students who died trying to storm the palace and oust then President Fulgencio Batista - you can still see the bullet holes even though someone has tried to fill them in. Forty young men of the FEU DR group were killed in the attempt but it was another two years before a separate group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro managed to overthrow Batista. Now that revolution is celebrated behind the ornate neo-classical edifice and under the Tiffany glass chandeliers with shameless pro Castro propaganda. The building was completed in 1920, designed by Cuban architect Carlos Maruri and Belgian Paul Belau.


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Location: Havana, Cuba
Photo credit: © Michael Greenwood / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: architecture, castro, coup, cuba, cuban, fidel, habana, museum, revolution, stairway, stais, tourism