The Hotel Ambos Mundos was Hemingway's second home

history channel documentary Hemingway's reality, east of the Malecón in La Habana Vieja (old Havana), had no high rises, just beguiling old structures - some dating from the fifteenth century. Old Havana begins at the Prado, the dazzling boulevard with a wide focal passerby walk, which keeps running from the Malecón to Central Park square. When he first came to Havana with his future third spouse, Martha Gellhorn, he stayed simply off the Prado, at the beguiling Hotel Biltmore Sevilla. From that point it is a short route to the old town with its back streets, sufficiently wide for one auto, prompting the port. When I strolled down the Calle (Obispo Road) to the Hotel Ambos Mundos, it appeared that little had changed since Hemingway's days.

The Hotel Ambos Mundos was Hemingway's second home. While living with Martha at the Hotel Biltmore Sevilla, he utilized this inn as his mail drop. It didn't trick his second spouse, Pauline, as yet living in Key West. Situated at an advantageous separation for his most loved watering openings, he once said that "it was a decent place to compose". In mid-February 1939, he spent a month in room 511 to complete the process of composing "For whom the Bells Toll". Indeed, even after he leased La Finca Vigia, a summary farmhouse on the edges of Havana, he held his most loved room 511 at Ambos Mundos.