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The young José Martí spent 65 days in this room, recovering after having been in prison. The farm belonged to José María Sardá.
On October 26, 1868 the Catalan José María Sardá acquired in Isla de Pinos an estate of twelve caballerias of land worth 24 thousand silver escudos, it had magnificent natural conditions and a good geographical position. Sardá had created a system of sewers and aqueducts that by force of gravity lowered the water from the spring. The lands also had fields of corn, cotton, some tobacco and coffee, rice for the lomerí or although the best business was the rich quarries of pink marble, a lime kiln and a starch, brick and tile factory. The farm had 50 slaves and a score of political prisoners and deportees. Sardá had bought this farm to take care of the health of her son who was borrmatic and this climate would suit her. Located in Sierra Las Casas, a kilometer and a half from Nueva Gerona, capital of the then Colonia Reina Amalia, and gives it the name "El Abra", it is not well known whether alluding to the related geographical position or the word that in its The native language means tree, that is, Arbra. In the beautiful place with such a significant name, Sardá builds his family house formed by three independent architectural bodies that recall the features of the great Catalan estates called Macías. The Sardá Valdés family moved permanently to it in 1869. This constructive businessman, Master of Works graduated from the Professional School of Havana in 1865, executes contracts with the Spanish government in various works in the capital, including Plaza del Polvorín, Plaza Vieja, La cerca de la Quinta de los Molinos, among others.
At only 17 years old José Julián Martí Pérez, he is among the group of those who, from dawn to dusk, work tirelessly serving their respective sentences. In these circumstances José María Sardá knows him. The deplorable state of health of the young man brings to the meeting of the Catalan, the father of Martí, who asks him for help in the name of the friendship that exists between them, since the days when Mariano Martí served as a ship inspector in the port of Batabanó. Dramatic appeal that found echo in the heart of the owner that leads him to intercede for him with the authorities. The efforts of Sardá before the Captain General in person give rise to the commutation of the sentence of six years in prison for that of politically confined to Isla de Pinos and later the exile to Spain. Under his responsibility, the benefactor takes the young man and takes him to his house on the farm; where he remains 65 days until the proceedings for deportation to the peninsula are completed, a period that begins on October 13 and ends on December 18, 1870.
Loving care like those lavished on a son, was offered by Trinidad Valdés Amador, Sardá's wife, care that helps him recover part of his health and ignites in his heart the purest gratitude for her, which is witnessed by several presents and words : a letter, a crucifix sent from Spain and the dedication of a photograph. "Trina, I'm just sorry to have met you because of the sadness of having to part so soon." And in El Abra, he left his tracks forever; in the five children who saw him, Rosa, Juan, Catalina, José Regino, Domingo, in the kind-hearted Doña cubana who, in the three that were born to him later, Carmela, José Elías and Conchita, planted the brief and moving story of that young man in his house to whom he gave life for Cuba, a place with a geographical or Catalan name where memories are kept alive today and the descendants of those protagonists who preserved for the present and future generations the beautiful place where José Martí lived.
The Museum opened its doors on January 28, 1944, the collection was made up of the furniture of the house, donated by the descendants of the Sardá family, consisting of the bed, the clothes closet, an oil lamp, a pylon of wood and a lock with its key, to which were joined the two oil paintings of Martí and Sardá, painted by Enrique Caravia and Domingo Ravenet.
This architectural construction is unique of its kind in the country, called “Las Masías”. It is a building with a Catalan constructive culture that is made up of three elements: a kitchen-dining room in the center and two blocks of rooms on both sides, it has two types of roof, one with wooden joists with Creole tiles and a second with roof of guano, in addition a garage and a barn to store the grains in time of scarcity. There are still vestiges of what were the barracks of the
Black slaves from Sardá, a small lime kiln and the pedestal in the patio that works as a sundial.
After the inauguration, in 1945, the collection was expanded with a substantial donation also made by the family who decided to deliver the most valuable objects.
They donated by means of a notarial act the bed sheet, the Sacred History books on the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, which were recurrent readings of the Apostle on his Sabbath days in El Abra and which keep in their margins the signature of Joseph María Sardá, as well as the wooden and bronze crucifix that José Martí sent Doña Trinidad from Spain, in expression of her gratitude for the care she gave her sick eyes and her sore and bleeding leg, other recorded support elements, crayon drawings depicting important moments in the life of José Martí, as well as didactics through marble slabs completed the exhibition. This exhibition introduced a museum guide who was an integral part of the historical relics.
This museum treasures a book of signatures where it reflects the passage of the Cubans who carry in their hearts the ideas of the teacher, example: Fidel Castro Ruz, Camilo Cienfuegos, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Alicia Alonso and a niece of the apostle.

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Here in this former prison, the young revolutionaries who assaulted the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, among whom were imprisoned before their departure for Mexico was the leader of the revolutionary movement, Fidel Castro.
It is located in the town Juan Delio Chacón, 4 km east of Nueva Gerona, capital of Isla de la Juventud (Cuba), 4 km west of Bibijagua beach.
In October 1925, Mr. Marcos Perera and his assistant Ricardo López were appointed Head of the work, who arrived on the Island on the 17th of the same month. They were provided with 6 prisoners from the Nueva Gerona prison, plus the necessary custodians. With them began the transfer of materials. On October 28, 1925 they brought from Havana a group of 50 inmates, 25 soldiers and a lieutenant; Thus, the presidial work force increased from different prisons in the country; Skilled civilian labor and the signature of the American Stell Co. were also used.
On February 1, 1926, President Gerardo Machado inaugurated the construction start in an official and symbolic act by signing the act of laying the first stone. At the beginning of 1932 construction was paralyzed due to lack of credit.
It was built to hold ordinary prisoners from 6 months to long years of sentence (only for men). According to the dictator Gerardo Machado, to "clean up" the Cuban crime society. Here the 24 existing prisons in Cuba merged with appearances of modernity.
The choice of Isla de Pinos to build the Model Prison was by President Gerardo Machado himself; although the pinero politician Cecilio Soto Llorca claimed that "privilege" for him.
In a letter to Machado, Rogelio Zayas-Bazán, Minister of the Interior, expressed to him: "You were not only inspired by the excellent situation of those lands but by the desire to give color to that corner of Cuban territory ... choice of the land of Isla de Pinos and in this way contributes to the flourishing of that island ».
The above is nothing more than a mockery and offense to the Cuban people, a supreme act of guataquería to the president and a violation of the agreements of the International Penitentiary Congress that since the beginning of the century prohibited the construction of jails on islands, considering that the prisoner he would serve double punishment: the sanction for the crime plus exile.
It was acquired through the compulsory expropriation and State lands (lots 91, 92, 93, 99, 100 and 111, in the year 1925). (77, 81, 82, 86, 87, and 104 in the year 1927). These lands comprised 99.5 caballerias.
Note that the Model Prison comprised not only the current architectural part, today a National Monument, but an area of ​​162.5 caballerias, much of it devoted to the cultivation and breeding of animals.
Where the National Monument is located today was lot No. 103 known as Finca La Carlota (forcibly expropriated), whose owners were Juana Crisótamo Hernández Bacallao and María Isabel Blanco Hernández. This expropriation was registered in the Court of First Instance of the Isla de Pinos Judicial Party, case No. 57 of October 1925, Property Registry Folio 227, Volume 95. It was published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Havana, year XXV, edict 242. Havana, Friday, October 23, 1925; protected by Decree No. 595 of May 22, 1907.

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The Caves of Punta del Este, located on the Isla de la Juventud, Cuba; They form a group that is well known for the cave paintings that have been found on its walls, left there by the aborigines in pre-Columbian times.
Punta del Este is located in the extreme south east of the Isla de la Juventud, it has 33 square kilometers of extension, where there is a rich biodiversity, in which the exuberant vegetation and diverse terrestrial and marine fauna stand out.
From a heritage point of view, the Site is renowned for the presence of a four-cave cave system, where No. 1 is located, with 213 pictographs, representing almost a third of those found throughout the country. reason that caused the Cuban sage Fernando Ortiz to call it “THE SIXTINE CHAPEL OF CARIBBEAN RUPTURE ART”. Today a National Monument declared since 1979 by the National Commission of Monuments. The caves have gone through several restoration works that included new excavations, the washing of the walls and ceilings, the taking of photographs of the entire process, the restoration of the floors and the rest.

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Boat that went down in history for being used in the transfer of young people of the Centennial Generation from Isla de Pinos to Batabanó to go there to Havana by train, after 19 months of being incarcerated in the Model Prison.
It begins in 1901 at the shipyards in Philadelphia, United States, when it was decided to build a steel-hulled warship. When it barely reaches its first quarter of a century, it suffers a fire and its owners decide to turn it into a passenger and cargo ship. Its dimensions are 51 m long, 9 m wide, with a prop of 2.25 m, which in total reported 497 tons and its value, at that time was 150,000 pesos and came to have 25 cabins with double berths.
The Isla de Pinos Steamer Company (The Isle of Pines Steamship. Co) approves the purchase and transfers it to that island to use it on the Nueva Gerona-Batabanó route. It was in the month of November 1926, when the first boat used in the territory with oil engines arrived at the Río Las Casas. In the Book of Ships of the Mercantile Registry of Isla de Pinos, on page 12, folio 94, as the first inscription of 1927, this ship appears with the name of Pinero.
Upon Pinero's arrival in the Isle of Pines, the construction of the Model Prison was one year from its most important moment, with more than 250 inmates working every day of the day, as well as dozens of civilian workers and technicians. The entry of construction materials and men was constant, and the ship participated in the transfer of the same. She also had the task of transferring to the prison and from there to Batabanó many of the political prisoners that the dictator Gerardo Machado assigned to them as a prison. El Pinero became the main means of communication between the Isle of Pines and the rest of the country through the port of Batabanó. The arrival or departure of the Pinero from the Nueva Gerona pier was a moment of recreation, a meeting of friends and family, a whole cultural event.
After the arrival of those punished in the Assaults at the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, their family and friends began to use it as the ideal transport to travel to Nueva Gerona. The obligatory presence of this boat, not only in pine history, but in that of the whole of Cuba, was when on May 15, 1955, at 9:00 at night (one hour after the usual one), it set sail for Havana, carrying the Youth of the Centennial upon themselves once the triumph of the political amnesty had been reached, after being locked up for 19 months. Important events happened during the journey, such as Fidel's reunion with his comrades in the fight, after 15 months in isolation and the distribution of the activities that each of them had to do to continue the fight; It was also on this journey where the name of July 26 was approved by these revolutionaries for the new movement that would continue the fight for total independence.

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