Returning with Frank Hinrichs to the splendor of Tropicana
He is one of the leading experts on the history of the cabaret and possesses the world’s largest collection of ...
Tag: History of Cuba
Chronicles from Isle of Youth: a black sand beach
Arriving at Bibijagua at night wasn’t exactly a whim, but rather the pleasant command of Unger, the historian of the ...
The Singer sewing machine and the stitches of time
A symbol of selflessness and silent domestic hope in the long thread of centuries. In many cases, it has set ...
The story behind the “sister flags” of Cuba and Puerto Rico
A design born in Manhattan, an evening with José Martí and a touch of chromatic chance reveal the surprising connection ...
La Punta, more than a fortress in Havana
A popular spot for strollers and fishers, tourists and lovers, this Havana esplanade and its surroundings are a place of ...
Nave Don Pancho: from sugar warehouse to rum sanctuary
Between wooden beams and barrels with a scent of nostalgia, a legacy and a spirit that cannot fit in a ...
An Oriental master in Havana: Jinarajadasa’s visit
The Hindu scholar liked the atmosphere of Cuba and its people. Here he found a thread of spirituality, a yearning ...
Matías Pérez: An ascent in Havana
My brother Rapi, like our father, was impressed by this story: that obsession, that tenacity to achieve a dream even ...
Martí in Manhattan, a symbol that returns the gaze
There, the Apostle continues to summon glances and memories. A recent mural brings him back to the New York landscape, ...
When Halley’s Comet sent Cubans running
In 1910, the passage of the famous comet unleashed fear, superstition and sensational headlines, provoking scenes of panic, apocalyptic rumors ...
San Juan Hill: heritage in the attic?
The scene of one of the most decisive and bloody battles in Cuban history, it holds among its monuments and ...
Morro Castle, the light that guards the bay
It is much more than a stone fortress. It is an emblem, a witness that has accompanied us for centuries ...
Extraordinary Cuban women
Shrouded in the silence of history, they were a real “scandal” in their time, breaking the ceiling of omnipresent machismo.
Oscar Paglieri: the anointed one of “La Estrella de Italia” in Cuba
An enterprising and accommodating Italian opened a jewelry workshop in Havana that not only won the attention of the personalities ...
Cuba’s Railway Museum, without witnesses
Whenever I can, I photograph these enormous artifacts, extinct colossi like dinosaurs. That’s how I came to this kind of ...
The takeoff of the national footwear industry (II)
In 1925, 41% of the footwear demanded by the island’s population was produced in Cuba.
The takeoff of the national footwear industry (I)
It was a craft in which few workers were involved, in family businesses that also functioned as saddleries.
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