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Ice cream at Coppelia. Photo via Flickr user Naila Jinnah Opening in 1966, Coppelia was designed by prominent modernist architect Mario Girona and was constructed to accommodate 1,000 people.
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Coppelia is as much about communion as ice-cream - an enduring touchstone for the revolution's utopian ideals. Cubans of all ages, black and white, rich and poor, can gather under one roof to.
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It cost 0.50 Cuban pesos. The most expensive item on the menu was the ice-cream salad, which, at the time, consisted of five scoops of ice-cream (chosen from the parlor's wide selection of cream and fruit flavors), covered with the appropriate syrup. Today, you get five scoops of the one flavor on the menu, covered with a bit of melted brown.
Coppelia ice cream parlour, Vedado, Havana, La Habana, Cuba, Greater
Coppelia is the city's best-known ice cream parlor. Fidel Castro commissioned it in the early days of the Revolution, and while Havana is full of buildings that evoke faded glory and eroded optimism, Coppelia is a particularly vivid example.
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Coppelia Ice Cream Parlour, Havana, Cuba (1966) Architects: Mario Girona with Rita María Grau and Candelario Ajuria Engineers: Maximiliano Isoba and Gonzalo Paz. One of the best-known images of Fidel Castro's 1959 visit to New York shows him eating ice cream at the Bronx Zoo. This was more than a simple anecdote.
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Coppelia is one of the largest ice cream parlours in the world. It was popularized by Tomás Gutiérez Alea's film Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate), as it was the setting of a pivotal scene in the movie. Coppelia is located at the corner of Calle 23 & L, across from Yara Cinema, Vedado district, Havana. 11 am - 11pm.
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The iconic Coppelia ice-cream parlor on 23rd street in Vedado, Havana, is one of the most visited spots in the city, not only by Havana's residents, but by people from all over the country and foreigners too. However, times have changed, and you can't compare what it is today to the Coppelia in my memories.
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HAVANA TIMES - The emblematic Coppelia ice cream parlor, located on L and 23, in the heart of Havana's El Vedado, is closed on all four sides this Thursday, with the lights off and the tables cleared. Again, as was the case earlier this year, there is no ice cream. A novelty, this time, is that all the employees are on the street, selling.
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Coppelia. Bit Boy (CC BY 2.0) In Cuba, you don't have to look far to find an ice cream joint. But the aging citadel of cold confections known as Coppelia is the Alpha and Omega of the Cuban ice.
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Coppelia is an ice cream parlor chain in Cuba, originally built in a project led by Fidel Castro. Coppelia is state-run and sells in Cuban pesos (CUP). Havana's Coppelia employs more than 400 workers and serves 16,000 litres (4,200 US gal) of ice cream to 35,000 customers each day.
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Supplying Coppelia and the rest of Cuba with local milk became an obsession equal to his passion for ice cream. Cuba had zebu cattle, a hardy breed that is found in many tropical countries, but.
Coppelia ice cream parlour Vedado Cuba Havana Stock Photo, Royalty Free
Occupying an entire city block, Parque Coppelia is known as 'la catedral de helado' - the ice cream cathedral (Credit: Christopher P Baker) This state-run 'people's park' offers a for.
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Located in Havana, Cuba, Coppelia Park is the world's largest ice cream parlor. Also known as the 'Ice Cream Cathedral, it serves around 30,000 customers per day and up to 600 at a time.
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HAVANA, Nov. 20th () The iconic Coppelia ice-cream parlor on 23rd street in Vedado, Havana, is one of the most visited spots in the city, not only by Havana's residents, but by people from all over the country and foreigners too.Coppelia is a pleasant, beautiful place, where you can go and enjoy different flavored ice-cream (when there is a variety of choice, of course), and to have a good.
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Parque Coppelia — the cathedral of ice-cream. If you want to see truly local Cuban architecture, rather than Soviet-influenced concrete boxes, you need to visit Parque Coppelia, Cuba's socialist ice-cream cathedral. In the 1960s, Fidel Castro created this a state-run ice‑cream parlor as "architecture for people" that came to embody Cuba.