Coche Mambí

Habana Vieja


To the side of the Palacio de Gobierno on Churruca is the Coche Mambí, a 1900 train car built in the US and brought to Cuba in 1912. Put into service as the Presidential Car, it’s a palace on wheels, with a formal dining room and louvered wooden windows. In its heyday it had fans cooling the interior with dry ice. You can peer inside.


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