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

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 09/05/2025

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

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  • News from Cuba

Five billion dollars of damage in one year due to the US blockade

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/10/202419/09/2025

More than five billion dollars is the extent of the damage estimated of the US…

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  • Cuban Art

Some works of Cuban artist Belkis Ayon @ Tate Modern – until 30 April 2025, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/06/202413/05/2025

Catch some of the works of the late Cuban artist Belkis Ayon on show at…

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  • Cuban Film

SCREEN CUBA: Films to change the world, 9-22 March, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/01/202426/04/2024

Screen Cuba celebrates Cuban cinema, looking at achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through…

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  • Cuban Art

Yes to the Havana Biennial! Art floods Havana from November to April

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/202126/06/2022

More than 300 artists, gallery owners, promoters, critics and theorists from various disciplines from Latin…

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Havana: one of the world’s most desirable cities

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/2021

Havana ranked fourth in the category of Most Desirable Cities, in the Wanderlust Travel Awards…

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Havana Club and Skepta

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/09/202023/09/2020

Havana Club has joined forces with the lyrical champion and top UK grime legend Skepta…

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  • Cuban Architecture

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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  • Cuban Architecture

Sustainable Havana and the Master Plan

  • by cuba50
  • 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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  • Cuban Architecture

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

  • by cuba50
  • 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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  • Cuban Art

Havana and Trinidad become UNESCO Creative Cities

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/11/201904/08/2020

This 30 October, the Cuban cities of Havana and Trinidad have been designated as UNESCO…

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  • Cuban Film

Ten times Havana took over the big screen – films which star the city itself

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/11/201919/12/2020

The city of Havana has been a muse, a protagonist and also a cliché in…

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Fabrica de Arte Cubano (FAC) in Havana declared among the 100 best places in the world by Time Magazine

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/08/201904/08/2020

The Fabrica de Arte Cubano [Cuban Art Factory] (known as FAC) is included in the…

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  • Cuban Architecture

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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  • News from Cuba

Havana’s founding designated as World Heritage site

  • by cuba50
  • 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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