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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.
The López Serrano Building was the tallest residential building in Cuba until the construction of the FOCSA in 1956. Designed by the architect Ricardo Mira in 1929, who in 1941 who also designed La Moderna Poesia bookstore on Obispo Street for the same owner, it is often compared to the Bacardi Building in Old Havana built two years before the López Serrano Building because of their ...
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]
El Senador is the original name of a luxury 4-star resort located in Cayo Coco, Cuba. It was owned as a joint venture between Cubanacan, a Cuban tourism company, and a syndicate of Canadian businesses.
The same lot is still known as el solar de los Arará (the Arará’s lot). At the time the African population in Cuba was not as significant as it was after the 19th century with the sugar boom. Cabildos were organized by slaves belonging to the same ethnic group and became very popular in the urban areas.
The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is dedicated exclusively to housing Cuban art collections. Spanning the 17th and 19th centuries, it has rooms devoted to landscape, religious subjects and the Costumbrismo narrative scenes of Cuban life.
Islands: Colorados Archipelago; Canarreos Archipelago: Isla de la Juventud (Isla de Pinos), Cayo Largo del Sur, Ernst Thälmann Island (Cayo Blanco), Jardines del Rey, Sabana-Camaguey Archipelago: Cayo Coco, Cayo Romano, Cayo Guajaba, Cayo Guillermo, Cayo Sabinal; Jardines de la Reina; Cayo Saetia
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.