Ernest Hemingway stands in El Floridita at the bar

During his stay in Hotel Ambos Mundos Ernest Hemingway came often drink a Daiquiri cocktail at El Floridita

Sometimes he drank along with Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, John Wayne

or Ava Gardner

A short walk from his hotel Ambos Mundos was the bar El Floridita in the shopping street Calle Obispo 557

Hemingway was not the only famous customer in this bar

For many generations Cuban and foreign intellectuals and artists were also like to drink their cocktail here

Little has changed since that time to the Regency-style bar

It still has the atmosphere of the fifties and the bartenders still wear their red coats and make the famous cocktails

Besides cocktails El Floridita is also known for its (expensive) seafood

Most people who come to visit the bar drink a daiquiri and like to taste a bit of the atmosphere left by "Papa" Hemingway as the Cubans called him

Hemingway was a connoisseur of cocktails and sat at the bar to see how the cocktails were made

Hemingway has had a significant impact on this bar

Therefore, there is a statue erected in his honor in his favorite chair at the bar and there are pictures of him on the wall

At 5  o'clock in the afternoon the bar is usually filled with people who wants  together with Hemingway on the photo

There`s every day a delicious Cuban band and it`s very cozy to stay here

The bar is known as "La Cuna del daiquiri" or "The cradle of the daiquiri"

"The bartender Constantino Ribalaigura Vert is credited with inventing the frozen daiquiri in the early thirties

The bar was a school of highly trained bartenders

El Floridita is specialized in the preparation of cocktails with

fresh juices and rum

In "La Bodeguita del Medio" in Havana Hemingway drank his favorite mojitoi

In the bar "La Bodeguita del Medio" in Havana Hemingway liked

the mojitos the tastiest

Many visitors also want to drink a mojito in this bar

The walls in the bar are filled with photos of Hemingway and there's also a photo whit him and Fidel Castro

His signature hangs framed between all photos in a list

The bar has several floors and everywhere you see signatures

placed by visitors

Even the tables are full scratched

La Bodeguita del Medio is a typical Cuban restaurant- bar in Havana

The other well-known personalities who have visited the bar are Salvador Allende, the poet Pablo Neruda and the artist Josignacio

La Bodeguita del Medio claims to be the "birthplace" of the Mojito cocktail that`s made ​​since the opening of the bar in 1942

Mojito is made with rum, mint, sugar, lemon and soda water

Attracted by the charm of Havana writers , choreographers , musicians and journalists meet together in this bar

The menu is typical Cuban : cooked rice , black beans , pork and fried banana

Ernest Hemingway lived for years in room 511 of Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana

I love the books of Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961)

During a visit to Havana I would see the hotel where Ernest Hemingway

lived many years

Hemingway stayed at Hotel Ambos Mundos*** in room 511 which is now furnished as a museum

The Hotel is located on Calle del Obispo (the shopping street of Havana)

Hemingway wrote most of the book "For Whom the Bell Tolls' in this room during his stay in the thirties

From the roof terrace you have a beautiful view of Havana

Finca La Vigia was the home of Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula

Finca La Vigia was the home of Ernest Hemingway in the village of San Francisco de Paula, approximately 12 km from Havana

On a hill on the southern outskirts of Havana, surrounded by a lush garden,

is the home of this famous American writer

We have visited the house during our stay in Havana but the house

itself is not accessible

Through the open windows, you can see his house well

as you can see in my video

In the garden stood a tower, that Hemingway had built for his fifty cats

and where he had a desk on the top floor

It was for him the ideal place to write and he had a great view of Havana

The Finca was built in 1886 and designed by architect Miguel Pascual y Baguer

Hemingway lived here from mid 1939-1960

In December 1940 bought the house for $ 12,500 after he was married to his

third wife Martha Gellhorn

She had come to Cuba for Hemingway, but decided she didn`t want to live in the

small room 511 he rented at the Hotel Ambos Mundos

The room is now a museum

The Finca consisted at that time of 15 acres (61,000 m2) with a farm

It was at Finca La Vigia he wrote much of the novel about the

Spanish Civil War "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

The novel was launched in Hotel Ambos Mundos

Hemingway wrote in 1951 "The Old Man and the Sea" on the Finca

This story is about the Cuban fisherman Gregorio Fuentes who, after an unsuccessful period in battle, becomes a huge swordfish that he wants to get inside at all costs

Hemingway won with “The old man and the sea” in 1953 the Pulitzer Prize

and in 1954 the Nobel Prize for Literature

After Hemingway and Gellhorn were divorced in 1945, retained Hemingway Finca Vigia and lived there during the winter with his last wife Mary Welsh Hemingway

She has the house redecorated and it hasn`t changed since then

There are also many hunting trophies and animals in formaldehyde to see

Ernest Hemingway bred cats and four of Hemingway ` s

dogs buried near the pool

During the Second World War, Hemingway's three sons visited

him often at the Finca

Sometimes they stayed in the "small" house that Martha (" Marty") had fixed up for them and was also used as a guest house

Hemingway`s yacht Pilar is made ​​entirely of mahogany and oak wood and is located in the garden under a canopy where once his tennis court was

In 1959 the Cuban revolution took place and Hemingway

left everything behind

Since then, the Cuban state takes care of its archives and various

items from his home

This includes manuscripts, documents, sketchbooks, photographs, letters,

artwork and books

On July 2, 1961 he took his own life with a shot from his favorite gun

He wasn`t the only one in his family who committed suicide

His father, brother, sister and his granddaughter came to their

end in the same way

Click here for the website www.Hemingwaycuba.com