Girón's Breakwater Defying Time and Weather.

In his book En marcha con Fidel, Antonio Núñez Jiménez describes Playa Girón's beauty like a shell open to the blue Caribbean Sea and he also refers to the coral reef that breaks the waves in a white sea  foam.

In those initial visits together with the Comandante Fidel, appeared the idea of construct a tourist village there and a breakwater made out of concrete to protect the artificial sandy grounds that would be transferred to that coast, where the beach would have a freshwater space within the salty one.

On July 27th, 1961, the Tourist Village Playa Girón was inaugurated, presided by Fidel.

The jetty, illuminated with streetlamps and with benches by its sides was suited the purposes of the community and the visitors. It allowed them to have a good very near the waves.

But time, the climate and men sometimes conjure their destructive forces to ravage the beautiful. On November 4, 2001 the hurricane Michelle crossed Ciénaga de Zapata with rage.

Nevertheless, the colossal work shows its majesty. Children and seagulls got together in the capture of fish and the old breakwater, now fractured, keeps on doing facing the sea and snatching its fury. / Arnaldo Mirabal - Girón.