The author Jean Rhys, who wrote "Wide Sargasso Sea", was born on Dominica.
Cultural authorities in Holguin awarded the Excelencias Group president, Jose Carlos de Santiago, with the El Angelote award, in recognition to the Art par Excellence project, a multicultural means of communication in Ibero-America and the Caribbean.
Every year an event of the plastic arts is celebrated and that distinction is granted, the highest conferred by the direction of culture in the eastern Cuban city, it evokes a statue erected in the central park Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, unveiled in homage to the Cuban pro-independence fighters who died in the wars for independence.
José Carlos de Santiago has been visiting Holguin since last Monday, which included a tour of tourist sites of great biological diversity and unique natural attractions, including Pinares de Mayari, Salto de Guayabo, Poza de Rafael, Sendero la Sabina and Cueva Fria.
The Excelencias Group President, a company that promotes tourism in the Caribbean, also exchanged views with tourism directors in the Cuban province, as well as with businessmen with whom he has contractual relations.
A unique moment came when the 44th edition of the magazine Art par Excellence was presented at the Provincial Center of Plastic Arts, with the presence of the Holguin painter, draftsman, engraver and writer Jorge E. Hidalgo Pimentel.
Since its origins, with the creation of the Hato by the Spaniard Francisco Garcia Holguin on April 4, 1545, the city has had a cultural and tourist development that places it among the main tourist poles of Cuba.
The author Jean Rhys, who wrote "Wide Sargasso Sea", was born on Dominica.
