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CubaSolar, officially the Cuban Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Respect (Spanish: Sociedad Cubana para la Promoción de las Energías Renovables y el Respeto Ambiental), is a Cuban non-governmental organization established in 1994. It promotes the use of renewable energy technology.
On display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2017. The Mae West Lips Sofa is a surrealist sculpture in the form of a sofa by Salvador Dalí.The light red, 110 cm × 183 cm × 81.5 cm (43 in × 72 in × 32 in) sized seating furniture made of polyurethane foam coated with a red polidur coating was shaped after the lips of actress Mae West, whom Dalí apparently found fascinating. [1]
Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado Vélez (1638 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain - August 29, 1704 in Havana, Cuba) was the Bishop of Diocese of Santiago de Cuba (now the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba) and was known as Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela. In 1687 he founded La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana.
Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar (between Calles 80 and 82), built in 1953 with a magnificent organ with 5,000 pipes. The restored church features 14 splendid oversize paintings of the Stations of the Cross by Spanish artist César Hombrados Oñativa. El Ajibe, a restaurant visited by Anthony Bourdain on his Travel Channel program "No Reservations".
The Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País de la Habana or Real Sociedad Patriótica de la Habana (est. 1792 or 1793) is a learned society in Havana, Cuba. It was initially organized to promote agriculture, commerce, education, and industry, [ 1 ] modelled on the Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País in Spain .
The Guanahacabibes National Park on the peninsula is one of the country's largest natural reserves and is separated from the rest of the island by white-sand plains, where one of Cuba's largest lakeside areas lies. A relatively small area holds some 100 lakes and the largest and purest fields of silica sand, which is 99.8% pure.
Cumanayagua (Spanish pronunciation: [kumanaˈʝaɣwa]) is a municipality and town in the Cienfuegos Province of Cuba. It is located in a valley near the Guamuhaya Mountains (usually these mountains are referred as Escambray Mountains , 23 kilometres (14 mi) east of Cienfuegos , the provincial capital.
The Teatro Nacional de Cuba is a theatre building in Havana, Cuba, on Plaza de la Revolución. [1] History. National Theatre of Cuba, July 19, 1957.