CubaPLUS Magazine

The Cuban multi-instrumentalist Bobby Carcasses will take on responsibility for the opening of the 33 International Festival Jazz Plaza, set for January 16 – 21 this year at the Havana city, event organizers confirmed.

The tourism guides comment in the eastern Cuban city of Baracoa that the island’s rivers have not much flow, but in their surroundings you can enjoy a particular beauty. That is an ever present feature in this country’s region, extremely typical and traditional territory.

An expansion of its potentials for the Cuban medicine and abroad, undergoes the Dalmer Laboratories S.A., one of the Cuba’s exporter leaders in this field, his director, doctor Rafael Gamez explained.

With a beginning of a very encouraging year for the Cuban tourism, travelers from all over the world have a lot to see with an extremely particular sculpture in the east city of Baracoa, the sculpture of Pelu.

Since the first months of 2017 different surveys and discussions of documents have been carried out and analyzed one way or another by more than a million 600 thousand citizens, about the implemented transformations which will going ahead in the country. Just as stated Marino Murillo Jorge, the head of the implementation and development committee for the updating of Cuba’s economic guidelines, held on December 21, 2017 which was previously approved in the last Cuba Communist Party’s Congress.

The tourist routes which currently are getting ready in the Archaeological Landscape properties of the first Cuban south east’s coffee plantations will make possible to the visitors the discovery of a Humanity’s heritage surrounding.

Nordwin Airlines trust in Holguín as a tempting destination for Russian tourists.

World renowned Valley of Viñales have now 236 rooms available for tourism

Legado (Legacy) is the newest album from Cuban orchestra Van Van, launched as a tribute to it's creator, the unforgettable Juan Formell.

The arrival of more than 340 cruise tourists during the current season confirms the increase of this type of tourist activity in the city of Trinidad, located in the south center of Cuba and declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 1988.

Cuba received 1,17 million visitors coming from the United States in the year that has just concluded, which represents a 119 percent increase regarding 2016, according to a tweet published by Josefina Vidal, General Director for North American country of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in her Twitter account.

The scientific community of the center-east province of Camagüey, with more than 16 thousand square kilometers, has as mean aim the campaign standing firm in the face of the climate change, and in that direction it guides the daily actions.

Cuban builders give priority to the works in the new International hotel in Varadero (to about 140 kilometers to the east of this capital) with which opening will incorporate 940 rooms to this famous resort.

The actress and artistic director of Teatro de Marionetas El Arca (puppet show theater El Arca), Miriam Sanchez, and Rene Fernandez, artistic director and playwright of the Teatro Papalote (kite theater), deserved the Hermanos Camejo and Pepe Carril prize, was announced in the western city of Matanzas.

The Great Theater of Havana Alicia Alonso added to its ornamental attributes a statue of that legendary Cuban dancer's, built by sculptors José Villa Soberon and Gabriel Cisneros.

With simultaneous shows in the 13 municipalities of the western province of Matanzas, residents and authorities celebrated the anniversary 138 of the first night in public of a danzón, considered the Cuban national dance.

The Cuba’s Contemporary Dance company (DCC) has received the Prize Alicia Alonso Great Theater of Havana, bestowed by the own dancer to artists or institutions with an outstanding performance on that stage.

The Mexican singer songwriter Armando Manzanero postponed the concerts planned in Havana until April 2018 for health reasons which doesn’t allow him to travel in this moment, confirmed the Cuban Institute of Music.

A group of actions aimed to celebrate the statement of the Cuban Guajira -a popular song about countryside life- as the humanity's immaterial cultural heritage, were announced by the cultural authorities of the island in a meeting with the press.

The third Carnival Cruise Corporation ship Veendam, (Holland America Line office) docked last Thursday in Havana with 604 people on board.