Parque de Villalón

<pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Traducción" id="tw-target-text" style="text-align:left" dir="ltr"><span class="Y2IQFc" lang="en">Parque Gonzalo de Quesada (also known as Parque Villalón), for having been built at the initiative of Lieutenant Colonel José Ramón Villalón, Secretary of Public Works of President Mario García Menocal, was built in 1915 as a recreational place for the aristocratic neighborhood of Vedado and It was finished restoring on April 10, 1999. It receives its name in honor of the illustrious Cuban Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui, one of José Martí's closest collaborators. In its center, a large base was built on which was placed the famous Neptune fountain that had been brought to Havana by Captain General Miguel Tacón. In the vicinity of the Gonzalo de Quesada park there are two very important sites: the house where Generalissimo Máximo Gómez died, on D, between 5th and Calzada, and the old Auditorium Theater, today the Amadeo Roldán Theater. In the corner of the park corresponding to Calzada and C streets there is a bust of Eva Perón, dedicated to the Cuban people by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and officially inaugurated on October 9, 2015 by Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman during an official visit from two days to Cuba.</span></pre>

Calzada entre C y D, Plaza de la Revolución, La Habana

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