There has been much talk about this, especially because of President Batista's agreements with the [[#Delegates|Italian-American mafia]] to create hundreds of hotels and casinos that would make Havana the [[Monte Carlo]] of America, but only older residents of Havana may remember the idea of building an artificial island just in front of the wall of the boardwalk and that would comprise the space between Galiano and Belascoaín streets, where it would be accessed, just one of the areas that are most flooded in the face of the occurrence of natural phenomena such as cyclones, cold fronts or extratropical casualties.