Havana, the anniversary of José Marti.

José Marti is a 19th century revolutionary and thus a national hero in this by revolution-dominated country. Even more than for heroic acts in the fight against Spanish colonialism José Marti is known as poet and writer. Many young children learn reading and writing by his educational stories. His birthday is celebrated every year with many festivities and processions for which the children practise all year long the chanting of revolutionary songs. Like you can see here in downtown Havana on the ´Prado´, after the revolution renamed to ´Paseo de José Marti´.

One of the peculiar aspects of revolutions is the renaming of streets. Everyone keeps on referring to the street by its old name, it's only the tourists that run around in bewilderment because nobody seems to know what street they are looking for, and only after pointing at their city map with a sigh of relief one says : oooooh you mean ´The Prado´ !!!