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Cuba opens new school of restoration arts for Cuban and Caribbean youth in former convent

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  • Posted on 09/05/2025

The Colegio de Santa Clara, an institution for the training of young people from Cuba…

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Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more with less

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  • Posted on 23/11/2021

By M. Wesam Al Asali for The Conversation Around the world, there’s a conjoined crisis…

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45 years of Cuba’s University of the Arts (ISA)

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  • Posted on 08/06/202125/06/2021

The Cuban Higher Institute of Art (ISA), since 2013 known as the University of the…

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Sad loss of the historian of Havana: Eusebio Leal Spengler, 1942-2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/08/202007/11/2020

Eusebio Leal Spengler, Historian of the City of Havana for more than 40 years and…

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Sustainable Havana and the Master Plan

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  • Posted on 01/02/202003/08/2020

It’s a cliché of foreign news reports about the island that Havana is literally “crumbling”,…

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La Habana, lo más grande: 500 year history of the city of Havana

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  • Posted on 16/11/201904/08/2020

“LA HABANA, LO MÁS GRANDE” (“Havana, the greatest”) is the slogan being used in Cuba…

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Interview with Eusebio Leal Spengler, on the restoration of Old Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/07/201903/08/2020

To say ‘Eusebio Leal Spengler’ is to say Havana – how many other cities have…

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Havana’s founding designated as World Heritage site

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  • Posted on 17/06/201904/08/2020

UNESCO designated as a World Heritage site on 11 June the original documents detailing the…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Havana Historian Eusebio Leal is named Honorary Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/12/201804/08/2020

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has distinguished the Historian of the City of…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Havana’s 500th anniversary will bring restoration of city landmarks

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  • Posted on 22/11/201804/08/2020

“Havana has played an important role in the construction of the national character, in the…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Havana 500: The Time of the Cuban Capital Has Come

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  • Posted on 06/07/201804/08/2020

by: Arteporexcelencia/Caribbean News Digital On July 4, 2019, there will be exactly 500 days left…

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Havana prepares to celebrate 500 years with broad city renovation programme

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  • Posted on 18/04/201806/06/2018

by: Cuban News Agency A wide ranging development programme is being carried out in Havana…

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Iranán Millán Cuétara awarded the National Prize for Cultural Heritage

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  • Posted on 30/12/201718/10/2018

The jury of the National Prize for Cultural Heritage for a Life's Work 2017 composed of Eusebio Leal Spengler, José Linares Ferrera, Daniel Taboada Espiniella, Isabel Rigol Savio and Jesús Gómez Cairo, decided to give the award to the architect Iran Millán Cuétara.

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