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Keep walking with Martha and reach the jesuit San Cristóbal Cathedral, whose towers are different. Its building began in the year 1748 and was achieved in 1787.

Strolling Through Havana

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Cuba - January08

CHAPTER IX

Handicraft Fair

Memories of the "Che" Guevara

...Hand made wooden, leather, precious woods objects. Hand made shoes and sandals.

...Jewellery, made of colourful seeds : necklaces, bracelets, some made of lucky seeds as "ojo de buey" (ox eye seed), for moving away jalousy...other made of precious woods or semiprecious stones. Rings made with old cutlery forks.

Many "Che Guevara" souvenirs. Some small, some big, some cheap, some expensive.

Hand knitted cloth, hats, table clothes...

You also can find, the ground or in grain exquisite Cuban Coffee.

We also found a very interesting numismatic store.

What I´ve liked best of this fair was that almost all objects were made by by Cuban hands. It is difficult to find a fair like this, without Chinese or Indian made objects.

Catedral Jesuita de San Cristóbal

Cathedral Havana

I keep walking with Martha and reach the jesuit San Cristóbal Cathedral , whose towers are different. Its building began in the year 1748 and was achieved in 1787. In spite of the jesuit monks were thrown out Cuba in 1767.

Cuban Jazz Bands

Cuban jazz band

Almost every morning before noon, I used to go walking to the San Cristobal Cathedral to listen different Cuban Jazz Bands composed almost by senior, black musicians.

They they have the art to perform that rithmic, melancholic, music, that music that comes into your heart, slaves music, love music, music of the soul, music that makes you cry, music that make you dance...