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Plaza de Armas, which surrounds a statue of the patriot Céspedes and is ringed by shaded marble benches and second-hand booksellers, is Havana’s oldest square.
Look also for the tombs of Céspedes and Frank País; Frank’s (as santiagueros refer to him) is marked like many others with the Cuban flag and the flag of the 26 July movement.
Castro delivered his victory speech in the heart of the old town, from the balcony of city hall on Parque Céspedes.
A variation on this theme occurs in Alba de Céspedes' The Secret (translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigly: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1958, page 114) where she confides that “I still had a whole afternoon before me to spend, and I used it to tidy up my drawers.
During the subsequent Ten Years’ War (1868–78) 50,000 Cubans — including Céspedes — and more than 200,000 Spanish lost their lives.