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I remember that, when I was a child, my first experience in the capital was connected with the Central Railway Station of the West. My memories are intact. I unexpectedly visited some relatives there on Manrique Street, between Ánimas and Lagunas, almost hand in hand with a relative older than me. On his way back, he chose to do it via rail, or as we popularly call it, "the train", a popular transportation, slower but also more economical.


At that time, the renowned terminal was a place almost always crowded with passengers heading to many destinations. At one point, my cousin left me alone to perhaps manage the ticket, and after a while I got scared and felt lost within that mass of people in constant movement. There were very good restaurant and cafeteria services, as I was able to confirm on subsequent visits to that one of the scare.


Today I felt homesick and a little spiritually depressed when, while taking some photos of the fountain of India, at the end of the Prado promenade, I decided to take a tour of the place. The first glance brought me a diametrically opposite reality: destruction, abandonment and a terrible loneliness on the platforms, where things were different before, with their queues of colorful and well-kept cars. I took some photos of that impoverished place and put my eyes on the environment that surrounds it.



In front of the central building and with the street in the middle, there is still a leafy little park where some steam combustion locomotives that belonged to several sugarcane monopoly plants in the era of the mediatized Republic remain on permanent display.


There, too, and in front of the main entrance, a piece of the wall of La Havana. The quensouws extends in a larger piece along the left wing of the building, where a bas-relief cast in bronze is shown with the layout of ancient Havana within the walls.


Near the emblematic Railway Station, on the opposite side of Avenida de Belgium, former Zulueta, is the yellow and luminous Casita de Martí, important, sober, heritage and historic of the capital and the country. Some more photos of the pathetic and uninhabited train terminal, which currently only receives passengers, on a quiet evening in the capital, allow me to leave testimony of how from memories to reality there are images that speak for themselves.


Anyway, rediscovering this place that is connected in my memory with the first experience in the capital has been a good reason to write this post.
Thank you for joining me.
I love you!
Photos taken with my cell phone.
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Recuerdo que, cuando era un infante, mi primera experiencia en la capital está conectada con la estación Central de Ferrocarriles de Occidente. Mis recuerdos están intactos. Visitaba de forma imprevista a unos parientes allá por la calle Manrique, entre Ánimas y Lagunas, casi de la mano de un pariente mayor que yo. De regreso, él optó por hacerlo vía ferrocarril, o como popularmente le decimos, "el tren", un transporte popular, más lento pero también más económico.
En aquel entonces, la renombrada terminal era un sitio casi siempre abarrotado de pasajeros hacia muchos destinos. En un momento, mi primo me dejó solo para quizás hacer gestión de pasaje, y al rato me asusté y me sentí perdido dentro de aquella masa de personas en constante movimiento. Había servicios de restaurante y cafeterías muy buenos, según pude constatar en visitas posteriores a aquella del susto.
Hoy sentí nostalgia y un poco de depresión espiritual cuando, al estar haciendo algunas fotos a la fuente de la India, al final del paseo del Prado, decidí hacer un periplo por el lugar. El primer golpe de vista me trajo una realidad diametralmente opuesta: destrucción, abandono y una terrible soledad en los andenes, donde antes las cosas eran diferentes, con sus colas de vistosos y cuidados coches. Tomé algunas fotos de aquel depauperado lugar y puse mis ojos en el ambiente que lo rodea.
Frente al edificio central y con la calle de por medio, aún se conserva un frondoso parquecito donde permanecen en permanente exhibición unas locomotoras de combustión a vapor que pertenecían a varias centrales del monopolio cañero en la época de la República mediatizada.
Ahí, también, y frente a la entrada principal, permanece perpetuando la historia histórica un pedazo de la muralla de La Habana. La quensouws se prolonga en un pedazo mayor por el ala izquierda del edificio, donde se muestra un bajo relieve fundido en bronce con el trazado de la antigua Habana de intramuros.
Cerca de la emblemática Central de Ferrocarril, al lado opuesto de la Avenida de Bélgica, antigua Zulueta, está amarilla y luminosa la Casita de Martí, importante, sobria, patrimonial e histórica de la capital y del país. Algunas fotos más de la patética y deshabitada terminal de trenes, que solo recibe pasajeros en la actualidad, en un atardecer tranquilo en la capital, me permiten dejar testimonio de cómo de los recuerdos a la realidad hay imágenes que hablan solas.
De todas formas, reencontrarme con este sitio que se conecta en mi memoria con la primera experiencia en la capital ha sido un buen motivo para escribir este post.
Gracias por acompañarme.
¡Los quiero!
Fotos tomadas con mi teléfono celular.

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He disfrutado la lectura de su post, donde está latente un contraste que va mucho más allá de la Estación Central de trenes, casi sin trenes, y por lo tanto, vacía... Un abrazo
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Ok, sus señalamientos y recomendaciones serán tenidas en cuenta.. gracias.
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