Localization
Casa del Fidel Castro is located on General Jesus Rabi street, between Rafael P. Salcedo and Santa Rita streets, directly opposite the Museo de la Lucha Clandestina, as shown Casa Museo on the map.
Opening Hours
closed to public
When Fidel Castro begun to study in a small local school in Birán at the age of four years in 1930, his teacher persuaded his parents about his high capacity to study and awareness, so that they sent him with his sister Angela to Santiago de Cuba to continue his study in a school with more facilities. Fidel was five years old when he arrived in Santiago de Cuba. He stayed in the house of his teacher that had a poor family. The money sent by his parents as sustenance was used first for the five family members in the house. Despite the good economic situation of their family, Fidel, his brother Ramón that arrived later and his sister Angela experienced hunger in this humble house. His parents noticed the conditions in that their children lived and took them back to Birán in 1932. However, the parents reconciled with the teacher that promised to improve the living conditions, so that Fidel was sent back to Santiago de Cuba to continue to live in this house until 1933.