Architectural, Cultural sights in Nicaragua
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Casa Museo Comandante Carlos Fonseca
The low-budget but heartfelt Casa Museo Comandante Carlos Fonseca honors Commander Carlos Fonseca, the intense and bespectacled architect of the Sandinista Movement. He grew up in this humble adobe with his single mother and four siblings, like Sandino, caught between abject poverty and relative wealth after his coffee-scion father finally admitted paternity when Carlos was in grade school.
At age 19, in 1955, Fonseca joined the PSN (Nicaraguan Socialist Party) and started publishing Marxist tracts. After the 1959 Cuban Revolution he was invited to a journalists' convention in Havana, where he ended up staying to host Sandino discussion groups. This sort of thing didn't s…
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Museo-Archivo Rubén Darío
Of all the museums and monuments dedicated to the poet that are scattered across his doting homeland, Museo Rubén Darío seems like the one where you'd be most likely to run into his ghost. Exhibits are displayed throughout the house where he lived until he was a teenager, ranging from everyday items - more a window into well-to-do Nicaragua in the late 1800s - to handwritten manuscripts of Darío's famous works.
His Bible, the bed where he died 'an agonizing death' and the fancy duds he wore as the Ambassador to Spain (as well as for his most famous portrait) are just highlights among the historic bric-a-brac.
Another poet, Alfonso Cortés, also lived here during the 19…
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Casa Natal Sor María Romero Meneses
Just south of the main road is the poorly signed Casa Natal Sor María Romero Meneses, where a small collection of artifacts and original writings mark the birthplace of Central America's first official saint.
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