Rich person of an architectural heritage inherited the Hispanic culture, cradle of an extraordinary musical culture, country with the single political system in the Western world, island with the paradisiac decoration, Cuba fascine its visitors.
Geographical overflight
Bathing in the Caribbean Sea, the cuban archipelago skirts the tropic of Cancer and extends to the Gulf of Mexico. With a surface of 110 922 km2, Cuba is the vastest island of the Caribbean.
Its lengthened form, being stretched on more than 1 200 km length for a width varying from 30 km to 190 km according to areas’, gets to him nearly 6 000 km of coasts by counting those of the other islands and cayos. The latter form around the island of Cuba four great sets of archipelagoes to the coral reefs.
Cuba
Attractions
Cuba will enter the imaginary one of the whole world thanks to Christophe Colomb, who describes thus in 1492 the largest island of the Caribbean: “I never saw of more beautiful country, of the sheets of palm tree so large that they are used as roof at the houses, on the beach, of the thousands of shells, a so limpid water and always the same dazing symphony of the songs of birds”.
Cuba remains this marvellous, rich island of landscapes to cut the breath, idyllic beaches and surprisingly fertile grounds. Mysterious and imperceptible, Cuba will be worked of hand of man during a tumultuous history and, if a ground can determine the character of people, in Cuba it is easy to think it.
Havana
Its capital, Havana, vibrate and live at intervals which are clean for him, halfway between the frankness of a made sleepy tropical city and the frenzy of a city like New York.
The first thing which surprises when one arrives at Havana, it is its urbanity. Not an urbanity factitious, surface, but an urbanity deeply anchored in its walls, its way of living, its population of more than two million inhabitants. Founded in 1514 by Panfilio de Narv
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In addition to the tourist aspects, you can also follow the social, political and cultural aspects of Cuba through the CubaNews list, a free Yahoo news group which has collected over 78,000 items from, about and related to Cuba. They’re all still available in a free, easy to access database as well.
My father and his parents lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1942. They were German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, and not political left-wingers. That family history is where my own interest in Cuba comes from. My dad met my mom in the United States and that’s how I came into this world.
Cuban society today represents an effort to build an alternative to the way life was under the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who ran Cuba before Fidel Castro led a revolution there. No one complained about a lack of human rights and democracy in those days, but U.S. businesses were protected.
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Jan 11, 2008 @ 7:17 am