Many slaves escaped from the harsh conditions in plantations in Suriname and became known as Maroons. The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863.
El Callejon de Hamel, located in Aramburu and Hospital streets, is a very picturesque place in Havana, a charming city, where rumba is danced and the traditions of syncretic cults are appreciated. In this place, folklore beats, traditions are consolidated and the Afro-Cuban cult manifests itself in all its magnitude, which is why tourists interested in these cultural expressions choose it as part of their tours around the Cuban capital. Its name is related to the US citizen of Franco-German origin Fernando Belleau Hamel, who established a foundry and raw material business there and won the sympathies of his employees due to ....
Charm, mysteries and astonishment have shaken nationals and foreigners in Havana throughout its almost 500 years of history, enriched by ancestral traditions and customs, the beauty of its surroundings and its patrimonial assets, unleash incurable nostalgia with remoteness. Among those symbols around which many legends have been woven is one that dates back to the seventeenth century. What is La Giraldilla and what does it mean? Many visitors to Havana's Villa de San Cristobal are wondering for many reasons. This slender image is considered the most representative symbol of the city made by the Havana sculptor Jeronimo Martin Pinzon. Don Juan Bitrian Viamonte, governor ....
By Caribe Insider 18-02-2019 The capital of Ecuador has charming places and is a tourist destination par excellence that each year registers a greater number of visitors. It is located on the Guayllabamba basin on the eastern slopes of the active stratovolcano Pichincha, in the western part of the Andes. Among the places of interest is El Panecillo, a natural elevation at 3,000 meters above sea level, located in the very heart of Quito. It is crowned by a giant aluminum sculpture of the "Virgen de Quito", created by the Spaniard Agustin de la Herran Matorras, who was based on the work ....
By Editorial Staff Caribe Insider The city' s airs from the time of the Spanish colonization can still be breathed in Camagüey, founded 505 years ago as part of the Seven Villas that Hispanics discovered in Cuba in the 16th century. It was baptized with the name of Santa Maria del Puerto del Príncipe and was founded on February 2, 1514, in a coastal town on the shores of the northern bay of Nuevitas, which at that time was named Punta de Guincho, in the chiefdom of Mayanabo, coinciding with the site where Admiral Christopher Columbus had planted a cross earlier when ....
By Caribbean Insider 08-01-2019 A special spell has Villa de la Santisima Trinidad, as you retrace the streets of stones of bald Chinese in its historic center you feel that incomparable sensation of being in a place stopped in time. That is why many travelers prefer it as a tourist destination and are captivated by its heritage values with 505 years, dating from the time of its founding in 1514. It is part of the list of the Seven Villages of Cuba, founded by the Spaniard Diego Velázquez, who in December 1513 sent to explore that territory with an indigenous population formed by ....
By Caribe Insider 17-12-2018 If you visit Havana, Cuba's first City Tourist Destination, which in 2019 will be 500 years old, there will be some places or shows that you should not overlook among your priorities, such as the canyon shot that sounds every night at 9 p.m. in the Cuban capital. Because that is already a tradition and if the cannon fire did not sound it would be something like losing one of the big city's identity. It is said that only once did it stop ringing and that was back in the last century, when the Second World War was taking ....
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Many slaves escaped from the harsh conditions in plantations in Suriname and became known as Maroons. The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863.
