You cannot go to Havana without going to the Malecon―the famous seawall that is probably the most iconic image of Cuba. The Malecon is the place we go to romance our girlfriends, to hang out with friends, to play music, to fish, to relax, to dream, to make offerings to the orishas (the deities of Santeria, the Afro-Cuban religion), to look out into the sea and imagine what it would be like to live in America.