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Riviera Hotel of Havana was built in 1957and still keeps its original style from 1950. It is a four- star hotel of 20 floors and 352 rooms. You can wash Vedado and the sea from the rooms. Due to its position, very close to Malecón,  this hotel is preferred by foreign visitors. The place belongs to the Hotel Chain Gran Caribe S.A. It was declared as National Monument since April 18, 2012.

Born in Havana on December 4, 1941. He is an emblematic figure of Cuban cinema. He was one of the founders of the New Latin American Cinema movement. His first film, Lucia, is considered by critics worldwide as one of the ten most important films in the history of Latin American cinema. His work, in general, is based on a humanist concern for national and Latin American identity, based on the ideals of peace, harmony and social justice. He died in Havana on September 18, 2008.

The building is located in this address in Havana. The police of the dictatorial regime prepared an unexpected attack and murdered the young revolutionaries José Machado Rodríguez, Juan Pedro Carbó Serviá, Fructuoso Rodríguez y Joe Westbrook Rosales on April 20th, 1957.