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Coppelia is an ice cream parlor chain in Cuba. Coppelia is state-run and sells in both Cuban pesos (CUP) and Cuban convertible pesos (CUC). Havana's Coppelia, for instance, employs more than 400 workers and serves of ice cream to 35,000 customers each day.〔("A California Architect Visits Cuba", Patrick McGrew, ''KCET-TV'' (PBS Los Angeles), August 8, 201 )〕 When business started in 1966, it ran with an impressive count of 26 flavors and 25 combinations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decline of Coppelia, Cuba’s Largest Ice Cream Parlor )〕 Today, lines are generally long and the supply and selection of flavors is scarce, with usually only one or two available at any given time.〔("Coppelia", Frommers )〕〔(Sundred Suzarte Medina, "Con bolas huecas no hay jonrón", Trabajadores, April 1, 2012 )〕 ==Havana== Havana's Coppelia building is one of the largest ice cream parlors in the world. Holding 1000 guests, it is located on the part of Calle 23 known as La Rampa in the Vedado district, and the flying-saucer-shaped building and lot occupies the entire city block between Calles 23 and 21, and Calles K and L. Coppelia has been a major city landmark for both locals and visitors since its opening in 1966, but acquired additional fame when it was featured in one of the most widely viewed Cuban films, ''Strawberry and Chocolate''.〔(Brendan Sainsbury, ''Cuba'' (Lonely Planet guide), p.139 )〕 Coppelia was originally built in a project led by Fidel Castro himself to introduce his love of dairy products to the Cuban masses, creating the Coppelia enterprise to produce those products. The original aim was to produce more ice cream flavors than the big American brands, buying the best machines from the Netherlands and Sweden.〔(Servando González, ''The Secret Fidel Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol'', p.211 )〕 Fidel's longtime secretary, Celia Sánchez, named Coppelia after her favorite ballet Coppélia.〔 The site of Coppelia Havana was the Hospital Reina Mercedes, functioning from 1886–1954. The hospital was demolished and originally there were plans to build another hospital on the site. The plans then changed and a 50-story skyscraper was to be built on the site, but these plans fell through. A tourism promotion pavilion, Parque INIT, then occupied the site, then the Centro Recreativo Noctural (night-time entertainment center).〔("Heladería Coppelia", ''EcuRed'' (Cuban state wiki) )〕 Mario Girona was the architect of the new ice cream palace built on the site in 1966. Influence can be seen of the biomorphic modernism of Italian, Mexican and South American modernists like Pier Luigi Nervi, Felix Candela and Oscar Niemeyer, who saw the opportunity to leave behind the rectangular forms of the steel high rises and utllize the plasticity of reinforced concrete. Populist ideology helped shape the design and use of the public space.〔 The park area surrounding the building features lush groundcover and a canopy of towering Banyan trees which provide shade for open-air dining areas. Curvilinear paths lead to an elevated circular pavilion inside of which the only indoor seating is located.〔 In March 2012 Venezuela announced plans to cooperate with Cuba to build a Coppelia ice cream plant in the country and introduce sales of the product there.〔("Coppelia, popular Cuban ice cream, headed to Venezuela", New York Times, March 24, 2012 )〕 In April of the same year the Cuban newspaper ''Trabajadores'' ran an article exposing the scarcity and poor quality of the product as well as the inattentive service at the parlor, despite the recently completed renovations. Among the problems were broken freezers.〔〔("Avanza reparación de la heladería Coppelia", ''Trabajadores'', 2 July 2012 )〕 File:Hospital Reina Mercedes 1908.JPG|1908 view of the Hospital Reina Mercedes, which occupied the site before Coppelia. File:Primer boceto del arquitecto Mario Girona para la heladería Coppelia 1965.jpg|First sketch drawn by Mario Girona in 1965 for Havana's Coppelia. File:Coppelia2.jpeg|Interior detail, Coppelia Havana. File:Coppelia3.jpeg|Interior detail, Coppelia Havana. File:Coppelia1.jpeg|Old logotype at Coppelia Havana. File:Coppelia4.jpeg|Detail of one of the lounges,Havana. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coppelia (ice cream parlor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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