Hamel Alley: A Place with its Own Identity in Havana

Hamel Alley: A Place with its Own Identity in Havana

Hamel Alley has its own personality, it doesn’t need anything else or nobody else to be what it is. It’s like Chinatown in Havana, or Obispo Boulevard, a place characterized by peculiar smells, colors and sounds. The alley smells, sounds, tastes and looks like...
Three Essential Places to Know the Afrocuban culture

Three Essential Places to Know the Afrocuban culture

“Cuba is a fusion”. With this metaphor, the renowned anthropologist Fernando Ortiz defined the gestation process of Cuban identity and culture. This intellectual, one of the first to defend the idea of ​​the blacks’ contribution in the conformation of...