Sancti Spíritus

Espirituano Septet: Ninety Years of History

Perhaps nobody imagined that the sugar-flavored chords that once entertained the nights of the village of Tuinucú would have such a long history. The burden of the hard day’s work was alleviated with the rhythm of the marimbula, the guitar, the bongos and the maracas played by a group of men who had no musical training at all, and who »

Count Kostia: An Unknown Celebrity

Aniceto Valdivia y Sisay de Andrade (Count Kostia) was one of the most interesting personalities of the Cuban cultural life during the last decades of the XIX and XX centuries»

1st of May International Brigade Arrives in Sancti Spiritus

The 11th First of May International Solidarity-with-Cuba Brigade  arrived this Wednesday in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba. The 210 members of the brigade were welcomed by political and governmental authorities, and by the delegation of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) in this city. According to Raul Cardoso Cabrera, ICAP delegate in this territory, before coming to the »