Monument to Juan Clemente Zenea

Elegiac poet. He died at the age of 39 years, imprisoned and executed in the cabin for his revolutionary activities in 1871.

His latest compositions, 16 poems, published in New York appearing in the New World (newspaper), entitled "Diary of a Martyr." It is said that he did not wrote them, but he only mentally prepared them and retained in his privileged memory, and with almost microscopic letter copies them on the eve of his death sentence. Then handed it to the then U.S. consul in Havana, and was so how it we knew that Juan Clemente was a U.S. citizen.

The bronze statue sustained by the Muse of poetry was sculpted by the Spanish Ramon Mateu upon Piedad Zenea de Bobadilla, daughter of the poet. It was built in the 20s of the twentieth century and is located in Prado y Malecón.

Source: City of Culture of Old Havana.