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Cuba is known as the island of music, because music means osygen and life for Cubans. The daily existence of this island breathes and lapses to the compass of an amalgam of rhythms listend in any corner, through a window or in any street.
Night Life
At dusk, Cuba’s cities become an amalgam of colors and music, designed to give you a really good time. Its many cabarets and clubs, the three Tropicana Nightclubs—in Havana, Varadero and Santiago de Cuba—and traditional annual festivities invite you to enjoy an evening of Cuban music and dance.
Theaters offer variety shows, classical ballet, other dance forms and plays. Talented chamber music groups and symphony orchestras perform in settings where the music and architecture form a harmonious whole, and Cuba’s many clubs feature jazz, boleros, ballads and soul music.
All these expressions are part of Cuba’s rich heritage of music and dance, through which Cubans express their essence.
Savoring Cuba
Cuba embodies the aromas of tropical fruit, sugarcane, rum, coffee and tobacco. It is all these rolled up in one. A cultural mix of several races that combine in a distinctive blend of tastes, aromas and textures, Cuba is also known for its cuisine, its rum, its coffee and its cigars, which please the palates of all, from the most knowledgeable to those just beginning to define their tastes.
A typical meal of kidney beans and rice or white rice with slow-cooked black beans, roast pork, yucca with a lime juice and garlic sauce, malanga or corn fritters and a delicious vegetable salad is bound to please. These exquisite tastes, smells and colors reflect Cuba’s aboriginal, Spanish, African and Chinese roots.
Cubans are always ready to party and are generous hosts, offering guests the best of everything. After a savory Cuban meal, a homemade dessert is just the thing—baked custard or slices of tropical fruit boiled in syrup and eaten with slices of cheese—topped off with a cup of strong Cuban coffee and a good cigar, whose smoke brings back this island’s sensual heritage.
And then, the perfect finishing touch: a glass of Cuban rum, of which legends are made.
You can savor the best of Cuba’s multifaceted cuisine in the many restaurants throughout the country—and also in private homes. Don’t miss this opportunity to give yourself a real treat.
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