Floridita

El Floridita is a bar in the center of Havana in Cuba. It was opened in 1817 under the name La Piña de Plata and is among the most famous in the world.

History

A bar El Floridita Daiquiri of a cocktail of rum, sugar and lime juice to have been invented. However, what is controversial because the Daquiri after a homonymous settlement near Santiago de Cuba is named. Especially by Ernest Hemingway won the Bar and the Daiquiri notoriety, where Hemingway is said to have always drank his own version of cocktails with twice the amount of grapefruit juice and maraschino without sugar, which he called Papa Doble. From Hemingway comes the saying: "Mi mojito en La Bodeguita, mi daiquiri en El Floridita ". At the bar in the bar room of the El Floridita sits a body set up by José Villa Soberón 2003 bronze figure of Hemingway, who gets prefixed by the bartenders at El Floridita every day a Daiquiri.

Founded under the name " La Piña de Plata " ( The Silver Pineapple ), later El Florida, was the bar as one of the best bars in the world. Last elected in 1953 in Esquire as one of the seven best bars in the world, bar for Americans lost by the Cuban Revolution in importance. In 1992, the Bar won the Five Star Diamond as best of the best. The bar is characterized by the fact that everything is designed in such a way as was common during the golden era of Havana. Among the guests were, inter alia, Naomi Campbell, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Connery and the designer Paco Rabanne.

Location

The bar is located at the No. Obispo. 557 esq. a Monserrate, near the Parque Central, the city of La Habana Vieja and the typical Havana classic grand hotels.

Music

On Mondays there is always the live band " Conciertos EN VIVO " in the rest of the week you can with Latin American sounds escape from everyday life and immerse themselves in the Cuban rhythm.