This erstwhile home of Cuba's former 'first lady,' Vilma EspÃn, the wife of Raúl Castro, and instrumental force in the success of the Cuban Revolution, opened in 2010, three years after her death. This house, where she lived from 1939 to 1959, is packed with lucid snippets of her life.
The daughter of a lawyer to the Bacardà clan, Vilma was first radicalized after a meeting with Frank PaÃs in Santiago in 1956. Joining the rebels in the mountains, she went on to found the influential Federation of Cuban Women in 1960.