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Roof Garden at Ambos Mundos



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While in Havana we went to this famous hotel for mojito's...

Much is made of Ernest Hemingway’s predilection for staying at the Hotel Ambos Mundos; he wrote the first few chapters of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ in room 551, which is now maintained as something of a shrine.
The rooftop terrace view was incredible and you can see a church with its giant 'bell' off in the distance.

Hence the inpiration regarding the title of his novel.