The birthplace of Fidel Castro "Casa Natal de Fidel Castro" in Birán (Cuba) is now a museum

At the entrance of the birtplace (museum) you will be assigned a guide that shows you the property and gives a lot of information in English. Birán is a small village in the municipality Mayarí of the province Holguín, Eastern Cuba. The place is best known as the birthplace of Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl. They were respectively born in 1926 and 1931 on the 93 km² estate of their father. The estate, where the birthplace of Fidel and Raul Castro is, opened in November 2002 as a museum. If you visit this museum you must ensure you have your passport with you. You can`t pay with dollars in Cuba for years, but the old tickets are still used. The last visit of Fidel Castro took place on September 23, 2003, on the centenary of his mother Lina Ruz who died in 1963. You can see the bed where Lina Ruz gave birth of each of her seven children, but also the crib where the Castro `s the first months of their lives slept. A total of 1.175 museum objects are managed by the National Heritage Board of the Ministry of Culture. The estate was originally founded in 1915 by the father, Angel Castro Argiz, as sugarcane plantation. Various properties of the family are still on the estate and a primary school. The school had only one classroom. The road to Santiago de Cuba ran over the property and for that reason he built a hotel, pub, post office, shop and arena for cockfights. The arena for cockfighting and the housing for workers from Haiti. The workers spent the money they earned in the pub, shop or at the cockfights. Eleven of the 27 original buildings have been preserved and the estate has been declared a National Monument in 2009. The original wooden house of Angel Castro Argiz was destroyed by a fire in 1954, but there was a replica built in 1974. On the estate are buried Angel Castro Argiz, Lina Ruz González, the grandmother and other family. The President Raúl Castro wants to be buried in the Mausoleum of the Frank País Second Front, in the mountains of Santiago de Cuba, with his wife Vilma Espin. More about Biran : http://holidaycuba.blogspot.nl/search/label/BIRAN or more about Cuba http://holidaycuba.blogspot.nl/