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LA HAVANA

Founded in 1514 by Panfilio de Narváez under the orders of Diego Velázquez, Havana is recognized by UNESCO like forming part of the world Inheritance of humanity. This international recognition in known as length on this historical city which was the floret of the Spanish colonies. Shopping centre and seaport, Havana was also an important market of African slaves resold without impunity with the merchants of Central America. The increasing fortune of Havana attracted the covetousness of the pirates who attacked the capital on many occasions. Since, the cuban capital was in the center of the bounces of the history of the country, of the wars of independence at last century until the cuban revolution of 1959. Privileged witness of an animated history, his historical and cultural legacy is single.

From 1898 to 1902, Havana lived under the direct cane of the United States following the treaty of Paris signed by the United States and Spain. The Republic, indirectly controlled from Washington, saw the capital radically changing aspect under the American influence, as well in the way of life of its inhabitants as in architecture. At the height of the American influence, the cuban capital was dominated by the casinos, the cabarets and the night clubs in the Forties and Fifties. It was then the "pearl of the Caribbean", or "Assembles-Carlo it of the Caribbean"; rum ran with floods in the felted living rooms, and the play attracted a number of American gangsters and mafiosi. The arrival of Fidel Castro to the capacity in 1959 and the establishment of the socialist model were going to change the practice of Havanais.

Havana is not an ordinary tropical city, one of these cities which give the impression to you to look at a postcard in two dimensions. Havana has depth and character (it is not tamed day at the following day), it is mysterious until in its ultimate cuttings off, and it became Master in the art of the seduction. You will be able easily to pass between 2 and 10 days in Havana, and, by leaving it, you will keep the feeling which you did not bore yet all his mysteries.


 

 
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