Traditional Cuban Farm Homes

By Elio Delgado

HAVANA TIMES, June 18 – In remote rural communities in Cuba wood, a scarcity in the capital, is still a common building material. Traditional roofing is interwoven palm leaves, often substituted today by or combined with sheets of corrugated iron. Photographer Elio Delgado recently visited some of these areas and brings Havana Times readers a look at the housing and surroundings.

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