Mario Miguel Girona Fernández was born on January 13, 1924, in Manzanillo.
[3] In 1940, Girona began his studies at the "Fernando Aguado y Rico Higher School of Trades" in Havana.
[1] In the 1960s Girona was appointed to carry out an architectural project to design the Coppelia ice cream parlor in the Vedado district of Havana.
[3] The National Union of Construction Architects of Cuba (Spanish: Unión Nacional de Arquitectos Constructores de Cuba; now UNAICC) awarded him the "National Prize for Life and Work" in 1996.
[3] In 2015, his work was included in the group exhibition, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.