This location is known as the City of the Big Earthenware Jars, a name
given just after its final settlement, inland, supposedly at the
beginning of January, 1528.
Society
The City of the Big Earthenware Jars is Camaguey
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Big Concert in Santiago de Cuba City
Singer songwriters from Cuba and other countries will perform for 12
hours in this eastern Cuban city, during an international festival to
honor Jose Pepe Sanchez, one of the country's major composers.
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Cuba has remained under attack by the USA, states Ashaki Binta
Unlike medical teams from other countries working in Haiti since the
earthquake, Cuban doctors – already 500 strong in Haiti when the quake
hit – are winning high praise from the people for doing everything
possible to avoid amputations.
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Week of la Francophonie Dedicated to Haiti
The Week of la Francophonie, scheduled for March 13-22 in Havana, will
be dedicated to Haiti as announced by Alain Zayan, cultural attach of
the French embassy in the Cuban capital.
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Young Cubans to Visit Fidel Birthplace Museum in Biran
The “From the Aconcagua to the Turquino Peak” project, made up of Cuban
journalist and students from Havana’s Institute of International
Relations will visit the birthplace of the historic leader of the Cuban
Revolution, Fidel Castro, before starting a tour of the iconic Sierra
Maestra in the east part of the island.
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Patricio Amaro's Sweet Madness
In my hands I’m holding Patricio Amaro's new disk, the boy who sung "love I never forget you, / I never forget you, my love".
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Festival of the Drum: Source of the Cuban Percussion
The party of the Cuban percussion is right around the corner with the
9th Festival of the Drum Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam with venue in
Havana and that includes concerts, competition, and theoretical
events.
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Visitors to Cuba can bring back samples of island arts from Havana galleries
If you venture into Old Havana, you can't miss the many art galleries
among the elegant arches and columns of the restored colonial streets.
And, if you're lucky, you may just come upon some of Cuba's top artists
at work there, or at least minding the shop.
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Leo Brouwer, Prize Tomas Luis de Victoria
One of the greatest awards in the world of music, inside the
Ibero-American environment, the 10th Awards SGAE Tomas Luis de
Victoria, has been granted to the Cuban composer and interpreter Leo
Brouwer.
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Women: Protagonists in Cuban Society
Different women generations are celebrating on Monday the International
Women's Day with a pride of living in a society that has demanded their
rights and have them as real protagonists for 50 years.
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Pop Art in the Heart of Havana
Since early February the temporary hall of the Universal Art Building
of the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) opened its curtains for the
exhibition “El Pop Art en la Colección del IVAM”
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Cuban National Ballet to Perform for International Women's Day in Havana
The Cuban Federation of Women (FMC) along with the Cuban National
Ballet (BNC) are holding a special gala to celebrate International
Women’s Day, March 8, at the Gran Teatro in Havana.
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Cuban flowers in New York
Flowers from around the world will be on display in Philadelphia,
orchids in the Bronx will help conjure up Cuba, and the streetscapes of
Paris have been reimagined at a garden in St. Louis.
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Viva Cuba Film
In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences.
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Bayamo, land of remembrances
San Salvador de Bayamo was the second town founded by Diego Velazquez
in 1513, amid the fertile valley of Cauto River, very close to Sierra
Maestra legendary mountains.
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