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Fashion is also Art

The Virgin of Charity, holding a child and walking through a busy Havana with a photograph-like background; she wears the red of fire and blood, but her mantle is the ocean itself, not just because of its intense blue, but also because of the elements that cover her.

Expansion and improvement of marinas Open for Business

Cuba is setting its sights on an expansion of nautical tourism as it prepares to receive more recreational boaters by expanding and improving its marinas and related services. Two of its most important marinas are the historic Marlin Marina Hemingway and the Marina Gaviota Varadero.

The Clearwing Butterfly

The glasswinged butterfly (Greta oto), is rare and little-known in Cuba. However, a local species, the Greta cubana, can be found in the country’s central and eastern mountains, particularly the Guamuhaya —also known as the Sierra del Escambray— in Sancti Spíritus province.

Martí, the poet

Some pigeon hole him into modernism. However, for others, he was the precursor of that literary movement, and yet others say that he was much more than a modernist: all of José Martí’s work was an expression of the modern age.

Travel in Time Havana Café

Crossing the threshold of the Havana Cafe's large party space is like going back in time. Its peculiar atmosphere recalls the 1950's.
The welcome by an impressive vintage Chevy convertible, a 57 Buick, a two-seater Yak 18 airplane and a 1947 Harley Davidson bike, as well as many other objects of the same period and photos of...

CubaPLUS Exclusives

Cuisine > Restaurant Spotlight

El Bacura, once visited, you’ll want to return

Situated in an environment combining the best of the foliage of the countryside, the beauty of the beach and cityscapes, El Bacura restaurant/bar’s greatest draw is that customer satisfaction is of the utmost importance. Open Monday to Sunday from noon to 10:30 pm, the restaurant is at Celimar beach, 20 minutes from downtown Havana, visited by those seeking relief from the heat of hot tropical summers.

Fashion > Rising Designers

All accents on bénédí

In this edition our fashion pages are entirely dressed in Bénédí the high fashion label of Cuban Designer José M. Riverón-Benedí. We are very glad to present this talented Cuban Designer, showing some examples of his extraordinary work.

TRAVEL > Attractions & Excursions

Club Habana Harley 6th Anniversary

Mostly all visitors to this beautiful island of Cuba have the same puzzled feeling when they see the old vintage cars roaming along the streets of Cuban cities. The so-called street museum of vintage American cars also includes an important collection of great Harley-Davidson bikes.

Attractions & Excursions > Places to see

Treasures of an Island

Stories of shipwrecks and pirates and legends of hidden treasures never found are both the reality and imagined history of the Isle of Youth (formerly Isle of Pines). It is said this was the setting for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and certainly the story's descriptions coincide with the location and geography of a place distinguished for its citrus production and marble quarries.

EVENTS

A Special Celebration

Artists and musicians gathered for a special evening in Havana to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Cubaplus magazine, a journal published under the direction of Dominic Soave with the collaboration of Cuban news agency, Prensa Latina. Cubaplus pages are devoted chiefly to providing Canadian readers with an insight into diverse topics of Cuban life, culture, science and sports, as well as all things related to tourism in the largest island of the Caribbean.

Culture > Music

Omara Portuondo, a Much deserverd Grammy

Sixty years of artistic life have been crowned with a Latin Grammy and her CD Gracias has been nominated for a 2010 Grammy. Famous as Novia del Filin (the Bride of Feeling), Cuban singer Omara Portuondo received a Latin Grammy award in the Best Album/Tropical