Hemingway doubles tour sites connected to his life. Photo: Mabel Blanco/Facebook profile.
The members of the Hemingway Look Alike Society from La Florida have been in Cuba for several years remembering passages and moments from the life and work of the North American writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature, who considered the island his second home .
According to the institution’s website, this weekend they were at the Hotel Ambos Mundos, in whose room 511 the famous writer lived from 1932 to 1939, at the bar-restaurant El Floridita, where he enjoyed his Daiquirí cocktail. , at locations in Cojímar and at the La Vigía Estate Museum, where he lived for more than 20 years.
In the coastal city of Havana del Este, residents and tourists spontaneously and warmly greeted the 20 bearded men who closely resembled the author of “The Old Man and the Sea.” They wore the safari uniform he wore and carried the medal with the year each won the championship to choose the double most similar to him.
Accompanied by Mabel Blanco and Wilver Orlando Aguilera, promoters of the local development project mural painting in honor of Ernest Hemingway, the visitors toured the historic center of Cojímar.
The members of the Hemingway Look Alike Society asked the researchers of his life and work various questions that informed them of the efforts, with the support of the relevant authorities, to conceive the path dedicated to the remarkable American intellectual, particularly in The Seaside City was with his work “The Old Man and the Sea” immortalized.
It would be a tourist and cultural corridor that would include the historic center and the above-mentioned project consisting of the exhibition of the largest open-air mural in the world with paintings about the writer.
(With information from ACN)