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Hotel Inglaterra in Havana, the comfort of living history

<span>One of the transcendental facilities of the tourist industry in Havana is the central Hotel Inglaterra that was inaugurated on December 23, 1875.<span> </span>It honored with its name the main world powerful country at that time, England, and it is considered one of the best world facilities after a rebuilding in 1886.</span> Read More

The Cuban cuisine a unique mixture of the spanish, aboriginal, african and caribbean cuisines

The Cuban cuisine is the result of the mixing of Spanish, aboriginal, African and Caribbean cuisines. There are remains of the aboriginal cuisine today. The most remarked characteristic of Cuban gastronomy is this mixture where the tomato sauce with few sautéed spices or Cuban sauce stands over the rest of the ingredients. Read More

Varadero: the most significant tourist destination in the island.

<span>Varadero is one of the most famous resorts in the world and the most important one in Cuba due to not only its natural attractions but also its history as summer resort that dates from the first decades of the last century.</span> Read More

Trinidad: "The Museum City of Cuba"

It is known as "The Museum City of Cuba", the Santisima Trinidad city, one of the first seven towns founded by the Spanish conquerors (1514) that today still preserves its construction as if time did not pass by. For that reason, it was declared together with Valle de los Ingenios, World Heritage of Humankind in 1988.<br /> Read More

El Cemí de la Gran Tierra o Idolo del tabaco Cubano

Conocido como Idolo del Tabaco por su semejenza con la figura de un habano, el Cemí de Gran Tierra es considerada la principal pieza de la arqueología aborigen cubana. Read More

A collection of notes by Ernest Hemingway have been discovered in Cuba

A collection of notes by Ernest Hemingway have been discovered in a Cuban house where the US author spent more than 20 years of his life, according to Cuban media Saturday. Read More

Hemingways legacy subject of international conference in Cuba

Scholars and researchers on Hemingway from different countries, including the United States, Britain and Argentina are meeting this Friday, June 22 in Cuba to discuss the writer, who established a lasting impact in literature, PL reported.<br /> Read More

The first commemorative stone in Cuba dates from 1557

<span>In 1557, just in the place where the Palace of the General Captains that was built in the 18<sup>th</sup> Century was located the first church built in San Cristobal.<span> </span>It has two naves, a sacristy and a cemetery.<span> </span>The walls of the church were made of earth and the arches and columns, stone.<span> </span>It was a place to worship San Cristobal, patron saint of the city.<span> </span>The church was called Parroquial Mayor.</span> Read More

Automobile from Paris to Havana

ose Muñoz drove the first automobile that came and traveled all over the streets of Cuba in December, 1898 he spent in Paris the years of the Hispanic-Cuban war. There he had witnessed the growth of this new means of transport and thought to make a good business with their sale in the island. Read More

The first womens fire department in Cuba

<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The first fire department in Cuba was created on November 13, 1696 in Placetas, Villa Clara province.<span> </span>Later, they were extended gradually to the rest of the country.<span> </span>There are no many data about the first accident smothered by a group of organized men; however, there is news about a women group for the same activity in the Havana town of San Nicolas de Bari.<span> </span></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span> Read More

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