Parque Lenin (English: Lenin Park) is a recreational park complex situated at the southern edge of Havana, Cuba. Although still open, many of its facilities closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and were not operating as of 2022.[1]
Prior to the Cuban revolution, the land on which Parque Lenin was built belonged to the Bregolat family, owners of the Industrial Alfarera Cubana. The former brick factory still stands today.[citation needed]
The park was inaugurated in 1972.[2] There is a monument to Lenin by Soviet realist sculptor Lev Kerbel and a plaque that says (in Fidel Castro's own words) "Lenin fue desde el primer instante, no solo un teórico de la política, sino un hombre de acción, un hombre de practica revolucionaria constante e incesante" (which translates "Lenin was from the first moment, not only a political theorist, but a man of action, a man of constant and incessant revolutionary practice").
In 2022 the government indicated that many facilities that had been closed to the public since the pandemic and many others were "completely depressed". Railroad transportation that, with more than nine kilometers of track, allowed visitors to ride to the central part of the park, was also not operating. The the transfer to the interior of the place. The main attraction, the Mariposa theme park was operating six of its 17 amusement rides and five attractions. A hydrofoil had been inactive since 2014.[1]
