Some information and links about Cuba - Havana and Camagüey

A Week of Culture in the year 2006 in the City of Camagüey

The visit to Cuba is being planned to coincide with La Semana de Cultura Camagüeyana (the City of Camagüey Week of Culture) – organised by the Municipal Assembly of People’s Power – which will be from the 1^st to 7^th of February, 2006. The 492^nd anniversary of the city is on the 2^nd. The cities in Cuba were founded soon after the arrival of the Genoese adventurer, Christopher Columbus April 30^th 1494 during his colonizing second voyage.

Links to other webpages

You may have linked to web sites in other sections of these pages. The following are some other links to just a tiny fraction of the webpages you could explore:

Derbyshire Cuba Network is part of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign

Some information about Cuba and how it relates to other Caribbean countries.

The Madison Camagüey Sister City Association. This website is worth exploring in depth (you may need to change the text size to 75% for best results in some of the webpages).

During the Week of Culture you could meet some real Americans. I have met the man in the blue gown - he is a doctor from Wisconsin, USA.

The latest weather at Aeropuerto Ignacio Agramonte - Camaguey: supplied by the United States government - there is some co-operation!

The Lonely Planet guide to Cuba is informative.

A taste of what the USA Treasury blockade imposes on Cuban-Americans and any other USA citizens or residents - click on the link "Family Visit Guidelines" for example.

The Embassy of Cuba in the UK. The Government of Cuba. The Foreign Ministry webpage.

Some statistics about Cuba here and access to provincial information.
In the page click on the "Other Information" tab and then you can select "Provinces" from the navigation bar on the left. Then click on the Province name - Camagüey say - in the map of Cuba.

The national arts journal La Jiribilla.

A history of the life of José Martí.

The English language version of "Granma" - the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee's official organ. The Spanish language version has some differences in content. And there are the International versions in English and Spanish.