Tarará is a gated resort town in the municipality of Habana del Este in the city of Havana, Cuba. It is about 19 km east of the city centre and west of other beaches including Santa Maria del Mar and Guanabo. Geography This resort community was built in the 1940s in Art Deco style on a hill facing the Atlantic Ocean. A small marina is located in an inlet west of the town. An amusement park was located across from this inlet, but now (2006) lies in ruins. While there's hardly any evidence of its past existence on the ground, the aerial view reveals a pentagram shape. The circle that surrounds the pentagram measures exactly 666 feet in diameter. The Pentagram does not belong to Playa Tarara, but to Playa Celimar. It was built after 1959 as an amusement park for "Pioneros of Cuba" organization. History Royal Sylvester Webster built railroads in Mexico then moved his family to Cuba so he could build railroads there as well. After he had finished building them he bought land and raised his family there. Tarará was developed in the 1940s by American Royal Sylvester Webster as a complete town, with a church (Santa Elena), a club known as the Tarará Yacht Club, 400 residences, stores, a movie theater, a marina, a public park and beach facilities. Many considered the Tarará beach to be one of the most beautiful on the island, with its boardwalk being a popular weekend destination. Tarará was a fast and easy trip to Havana and the airport, with newly paved highways going directly to the resort. Mr. Webster lived there, as did all of his children. The entire Webster family, numbering ten who were born on Cuba, and ten who were originally U.S. citizens, were later forced to leave the island, however, after Castro's police confiscated their homes. Now a British hotel company wants to buy it from the Webster family, and the family disagrees whether they should sell or not. The older generation does not want to sell but the new generations do want to sell some of the land. After the Cuban Revolution, in January 1959, Che Guevara went to live at a summer villa in Tarará to recover from a violent asthma attack. While there he started the Tarará Group, a group that debated and formed the new plans for Cuba's social, political, and economic development.