Stomping from the Capitol along Paseo de Marti, I reached the Cuban temple of Melpomene and walked around this magnificent modernist building in the style of colonial neo-Baroque from different sides. For a long time I admired its architectural delights, carved stone ornaments, sculptures on the facade.. The most beautiful view from the corner, I was quiet for a while, watching.. The Grand Theater of Havana named after Alicia Alonso (Gran Teatro de La Habana) was built in 1914, and it has been called that since 1985. The name was suggested by the legend of Cuban ballet, who studied this art, including in Moscow, Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martinez del Hoyo (Alicia Alonso), the famous Cuban Giselle. Previously, the Tacona Theater was located on this site, the building of which, built in 1837, was integrated into a new theater complex, which is designed for more than 1,500 spectators. The historic Tacona Theater was named after its founder, Captain General Miguel Tacona of Cuba. The architect of this architectural marvel is the Belgian architect Paul Belau (Belo). The Bolshoi Theatre is the base for Ballet Nacional de Cuba (Cuban National Ballet), opera (the Pro Art Lirico Center). The concert hall named after the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier y Valmont, the hall named after the Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona y Casado and the main hall named after the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca are located here. Remember how Lorca wrote about the theater: "The theater may be the most powerful and surest means of reviving a country; as a barometer, the theater indicates the rise or decline of a nation. A sensitive, visionary theater...It is capable of changing the way an entire nation feels in a matter of years, and, in the same way, a crippled theater that has grown hooves instead of wings is capable of corrupting and lulling a nation. The theater is a school of laughter and tears; it is a free rostrum from which false or old morality should be denounced, presenting through living destinies the eternal laws of the human heart and soul." If you don't want to go to the theater (tickets are inexpensive compared to the Bolshoi Moscow), be sure to wander around the building with a guided tour. For materialists, there are also good restaurants there..

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