In contrast to the residents of Havana, Matanzas or Cienfuegos, for those people who live in the city of Bayamo the beach is pretty far away. Nonetheless, “Bayameses” enjoy the privilege of a wide river that crosses their city and creates a kind of oasis there. (27 photos)
Read MoreCuban cigar enthusiasts and vendors from around the world paid a visit to the Partagas and H. Upmann factories in Havana during the XIII Habano Festival. The prestigious event for gourmet smokers concludes concluded on Friday with a gala cultural program and an auction of specially crafted humidors that brought in over a million dollars. (9 photos)
Read MoreHundreds of participants in the Habano Cigar Fest taking place this week in Cuba paid a visit on Tuesday to tobacco farms in the western province of Pinar del Rio, where most of the export quality tobacco comes is grown. Have a look at our pictures of the visit. (8 photos)
Read MoreJulio is a painter who feels great satisfaction painting as well as teaching youth to paint in his workshop on Obispo Street, where he gives classes and paints. Everyone who enters can see him carrying out these activities and the great pleasure he has doing it. (26 photos)
Read MoreFor those of us who turn out for the Havana International Book Fair year after year, it’s not strange to note certain coincidences like massive attendance or the repetition of published authors. However large attendance doesn’t always indicate interest, meaning that not everybody who goes to the fair wants to buy books or has developed the habit of reading. (24 photos)
Read MoreThe 13th Habano Festival, a week-long salute to the world’s best cigars, got underway in the Cuban capital on Monday. The five-day event includes visits to emblematic Habano factories; a trade fair; seminars; tastings and marriages; the International Habanasommelier Contest; a master class on cigar rolling and a visit to tobacco plantations. (12 photos)
Read MoreThe Morro Cabaña colonial fortress was the main venue for this year’s Havana International Book Fair that concluded its Havana dates on Sunday. The principal sub-venue of the Book Fair in the capital was Pavilion Cuba, located on la Rampa (“The Ramp”), on sloping 23rd Street in the Vedado neighborhood. (63 photos)
Read MoreA few days ago Ferran, a six year-old Catalan boy, asked me where I was from. When I said that I was from Cuba, he told me that he had visited there. “And what you remember about it,” I asked him. (16 photos)
Read MoreObispo Street is a busy pedestrian only walkway in Old Havana that virtually no visitor to the Cuban capital fails to promenade. (27 photos)
Read MoreOn one of my last trips during my year in Venezuela, I went to Colonia Tovar, a very distinctive place in the state of Aragua. More than 90 percent of the original immigration to Colonia Tovar came from the Kaiserstuhl region of southwestern Germany. (13 photos)
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