La Botica Francesa de Ernesto Triolet

As if the centuries had not passed, the old French Pharmacy, known as La Botica Francesa, in Matanzas, has been preserved to show visitors the simple and beautiful ways of science during the 19th Century. Almost 44 years ago La Botica Francesa became the first pharmaceutical museum of Latin America, with its rooms reminding of the hardships encountered on the road of research, and the past century's achievements, inviting to ponder the super technology to come. The pharmacy, owned by French Ernesto Triolet Lelievre and Cuban Juan Fermín de Figueroa, opened its doors on January 1st, 1882 across from Arms Square (today Parque de la Libertad) in a building constructed for that purpose.