Tropicana

Tropicana: The Cabaret and the Legend

Since the early years in the last century, at the entrance to the Marianao municipality in the province of Havana, next to the Zanja-Marianao railroad, was Villa Mina, the beautiful suburban property once owned by Regino Truffin, surrounded by a luxuriant tropical forest and now a fairy-tale dream for a nightclub that became a legend in the history of world musical and variety shows and that ata a time was known as the "most attractive and sumptuous nightclub in the world": the mythic Tropicana Nightclub.

Towards the end of the thirties, Mina Perez Chaumont, Truffin's widow, decided to rent her property to a group of entrepreneurs headed by Victor de Correa, who wanted to setup a nightclub.