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The Cafetal Angerona is famous for witnessing the idyll among the German emigrant Cornelio Souchay, who bought the land and started the plantation in 1813
At the height of the Cayajabos bridge, in Artemisa, are the ruins of the Cafetal Angerona, famous for witnessing the idyll between the German emigrant Cornelio Souchay, who bought the land and started the plantation in 1813, and Úrsula Lambert, a Black born free. Located in the Sierra del Rosario, it was part of the Pinar del Río coffee heritage until 1976.
El Cafetal Angerona was a thriving coffee plantation, with grain processing facilities and a huge hacienda, maintained through the work of black slaves.
Its owner lived in a stately home located in front of the hacienda.
It was a neoclassical construction, style expressed in the rhythm of the arches and columns of the facades, with large openings and doors to suit the environmental and climatic characteristics of the place.
According to history, the mansion and the coffee plantation were visited by artists, painters, engravers, writers and businessmen.
Among them were Cirilo Villaverde, José Antonio Saco, José de la Luz y Caballero, Ramón Zambrana and his wife Luisa Pérez de Zambrana, the American reverend Abiel Abbot, Wetherman and the Countess of Merlin, among others.
The name of Angerona is due to a goddess of Roman mythology, who was the deity of silence and fertility of the fields.
The Cafetal began operating shortly after August 12, 1813, the date on which the German emigrant Cornelio Souchay bought the land where it is located.
