The Museo Cafetal La Isabelica, located in La Gran Piedra, Santiago de Cuba, is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its foundation, which will last until December, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the declaration as National Monument of the ruins of the French coffee plantations in that area.
The coffee plantation La Isabelica dates from the beginning of the 19th century, property of the French landowner Victor Constantin Couzo, who named it after a very beautiful slave named Isabel Maria, with whom he had a love affair, according to the legends and testimonies of the last slaves in the region.
In 2000 UNESCO declared the Archaeological Landscape of the first coffee plantations in southeastern Santiago a World Heritage Site.
Its rescue as a museum was due to a meticulous work not only of the coffee plantation but also of everything that today counts the Gran Piedra as the meteorological radar, the seismological station of Río Carpintero and the rehabilitation of the ruins of the former hacienda La Siberia. ( Marlene Montoya Maza, ACN)
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