Photo Feature by Irina Pino
HAVANA TIMES – When the Kholy neighborhood was built last century, it was planned to integrate the architecture into the environment, since it is a high place, where the vegetation dominates. It is adjacent to the Almendares River, the Havana Forest, and belongs to Marianao Municipality.
Mansions were built there for wealthy people. Spacious residences with car garages and other amenities. Some even have swimming pools. Nearby is the Kholy Hotel, and a private clinic.
Part of this area is guarded 24 hours a day. Since those rich people left the country after 1959, other people were given their houses, although not to ordinary people. Everyone knows that.
There is a park nearby, called Kholy, too. It occupies a huge area, starting on Avenida 4