The Cuban
Cubans are imaginative, cheerful, unprejudiced. They show a clear and joyful intelligence. Cubans are friends with jokes and parties and always have a smile on their face. The Cubans are communicative and conversational, but also know how to live their private lives. They are hospitable, educated, and worthy. “Open to the world, joyful to know the new to adjust it to their creative imagination, united and grouper since the revolutions of the past century, loyal to their experience and historic identity”. Read more...
The traditional Cuban festivities par excellence are the carnivals, the charangas, the parrandas, the peasant parties and the patron saints.
The most popular are:
- Bandos de Majagua, in the province of Ciego de Ávila;
- Carnivals of Havana and those of Santiago de Cuba;
- Las Charangas de Bejucal, in the province of Mayabeque;
- The Romerías de Mayo, in the city of Holguín;
- The Parrandas de Remedios, in Villa Clara, declared National Cultural Heritage. It is one of the most famous.