Country: Cuba
City: Havana
Baywatch

By: Milagros Reynaldo
When entering the Havana Bay, you find the magnificence of her cultural and architectonical monuments. Colonial fortresses flank her and a couple of deities guard her and wrap her in their myth and religiosity. From the dolphin fountain, which imitates a piece of her origin and sovereignty, Neptune shows his trident and Jesus of Nazareth, in his green pedestal, opens his arms as if wanting to cover the city.
However, the photographer, owner of the magic of once-in-a-lifetime instants, is able to hide the tongue of sea that separates them, at once present in the poop of the ship that gets farther away. It creates the optical illusion of appearing to be a Greek god, brought over from Italy, Geneva, during the third decade of the 19th century. It is bigger than the Christ of the Havana, which is the tallest artwork and one of the most voluminous of its kind in Cuba and in the Caribbean.
Built in 1958, 50 meters above sea level on the top of the hill of the cabin, the Christ, constructed with white marble by the Cuban sculptress Jilma Madera, is the biggest sculpture built from this material outdoors by a woman. And from its privileged location, conceived also as a bay window, you can admire the best views of the Havana port and the Cuban capital.
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