Calidoscopio

José Ignacio Sánchez Rius, Josignacio (La Habana, 1963), is a contemporary Cuban painter creator of the Plastic Paint Medium technique which, according to him, mainly moves between the “abstract, semi-abstract and neo-figurative”.

The former San Cristóbal de la Habana villa came to be, due to its strategic geographical location, an inescapable stop of vessels in transit to Spain, a traffic that exacerbated pirates´greed. For this reason the Spanish Crown decided to fortify the city thus creating the most powerful and complex defensive system in the Americas of the XVI to XIX centuries.

Every October 20 the island celebrates the Day of Cuban Culture, since in that date, but in 1868, the town sang for the very first time the first patriotic march: La Bayamesa or Bayamo´s Anthem – so called then – turned in time as Cuban National Anthem.

The palace of el Segundo Cabo shines again, one of the three most important Cuban colonial architecture works, representative of the XVIII century baroque, turned into a new type museum: Center for Interpretation of Cuba-Europe Cultural Relations.

The Cuban capital prizes itself for the privilege of possessing two models representing in miniature, all the city and in particular Old Havana.  The Havana and the Historical Center models facilitate urban studies for new insertions as well as didactic and recreational aims, developing into a tourism attraction that offers an un-surpassing perspective before walking the city. 

Founded March 31, 2000, the Museo del Ron Havana Club museum recreates the history and manufacturing process of Cuban rum – national beverage – one of the best worldwide….from the sugar cane field to your lips.

Turned into a museum, Finca Vigia was the most stable residence of Ernest Hemingway since 1940 to his death in 1961.

Located at the furthermost end of the Bariay National Park and close to Atlantic waters, in the northern coast of Holguin Province, just where it is presumed Christopher Columbus, the Great Admiral first disembarked in the Island, the Memorial Monument regarding the Half a Millennium of the Encounter of Two Cultures evokes that primordial passage for the history of that part of the planet and the world in general.

Proclaimed in 2003 a Masterpiece of Oral and Immaterial Patrimony of Humanity by Unesco, the Tumba Francesa is a dancing, singing and percussion cultural manifestation taken to the eastern area of Cuba by French colonizers’ immigration and their slaves after the Haitian Revolution at the end of the XVIII and beginning of the XIX centuries.