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Cabaret Tropicana Tour

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The Price Include: Show cover; a welcome drink; 1/4 bottle of Havana Club white extra aged rum; 1 coke; 1 cold cuts dish History Tropicana Cabaret is well-known around the World as "A Paradise under the Stars". It . .
Country: Cuba
City: Havana
Duration: 3 Hour(s) - 0 Minute(s)
Tour Category: Night Clubs
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The Price Include:

Show cover; a welcome drink; 1/4 bottle of Havana Club white extra aged rum; 1 coke; 1 cold cuts dish

History

Tropicana Cabaret is well-known around the World as "A Paradise under the Stars". It was built in 1939, at the ancient grounds of "Villa Mina", a neighborhood belonging to the Marianao area. From that time it was identified by its great glass arch. Mrs. Mina Pérez Chumont, Regino Trufin's widow, rented her farm lands, located beside to Zanja-Marianao railroad, and arrived almost at the "Alturas de Belén" neighborhood.

In so a beautiful space, one businessman wanted to find a restaurant in 1939, that had a nightclub show for 300 people at least, but in a short time he added game halls which passing time was becoming the most famous Havana casino as also on the continent. Its founder decided to keep its beautiful grove, that's why it has a very tropical environment.

Tropicana is located in a forest with leafy trees, such as real palms, "mamoncillos", mangoes, cedars, and many others. In addition in this cabaret spectacles, the best artists of that epoch were presented. Popular Characters like Nat King Cole, Josephine Baker, Libertad Lamarque, Cheo Feliciano, Rita Montaner, Elena Burke, Bola de Nieve, and many other well-known artists.

All of them have formed part of the great cast of the Tropicana Starry shows, which has always presented the best of national and universal art.

To arrive in Tropicana we must find 43 and 72 streets corner Al Playa municipality to take the access which carry us to the biggest Cuban cabaret. Its main salon has a capacity for one thousand people around the stage or movil track rounded by palms and air ramps which artists use in their shows.

In its spectacles are presented more than one hundred artists dancers, singers and musicians. Who prefers quieter environments Tropicana has other spaces, "Los Jardines" restaurant the bohemian "Café Rodney", and many others, although anything can be compared with the great salon under the stars, one of the most legendary places in Havana.

The symbol of this famous Cuban cabaret is a sculpture that represents a dancer, it was made in 1850 by the Cuban artist Rita Longa, also the "Las Musas" Fountain was installed in 1852 at the main parch by the Italian artist Aldo Gamba. In 1992 the Restaurant Industry North American Academy gave to Tropicana the prize "Best of the Five Stars Diamond" to the best American cabaret, this Havana symbol was well-recognized and a rich tribute was given to its great history of a half century at that time.

At Under the Stars Salon (Salón Bajo las Estrellas), Tropicana's cast has always been a place where stars get down from the sky to offer the best of their art pouring from deep inside, giving an unforgettable mark in the visitor's heart.

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