If you walk along the Avenue of the Americas, in New York\u2019s Central Park, you can find the sculptures of American liberators Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and Jos\u00e9 de Mart\u00edn and, by them, is that of Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed, ordered by the Cuban government in the 1950s from U.S. artist Anna Hyatt Huntington.
\nIt is the only sculpture representing the Cuban National Hero at the moment in which, mortally wounded, he fell in battle in Dos R\u00edos, one of the most moving scenes of Cuban History. The statue projects the hero\u2019s strength and, at the same time, is able to represent tenderness, serenity and conviction through the movement and expression in Mart\u00ed\u2019s face at the moment in which he gave his life for Cuba\u2019s freedom. At the foot of the monument, among other inscriptions, it says: \u201chis literary genius vied with his political foresight and his spirit of sacrifice.\u201d
\nFifty years after being placed in New York\u2019s Central Park (1967), the only replica of Mart\u00ed\u2019s equestrian sculpture arrived in Havana as a present to the Cuban people, financed with the contributions of U.S. citizens and Cubans resident in that country who were able to collect 2.5 million dollars to make come true a gesture that expresses the persistence of this deep-rooted affection.
\nThe sculpture\u2019s replica is located, since October 2017, in the garden facing the former Presidential Palace. The beautiful present, which came from the country that served as refuge to Mart\u00ed, where he spent the most fruitful 15 years of his life and from which he received great influence for the forging of his well-outlined ideals, makes us feel the affection and respect that the Cuban people awaken in the men and women of goodwill who live and dream and work for a better future for both countries, while it brings back to us the sacred image of he who is engraved with indelible letters in the very essence of the Cuban nation.
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