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World Heritage connection: San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba

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Bolero: identity, emotion and poetry turned into song

Le boléro, identité, émotion et poésie en chanson

Bolero is an indispensable part of the Latin American sentimental song, with a strong lyrical character deeply rooted in Cuba and Mexico. A cultural amalgam, it combines the language used in European poetry, with African rhythms of enslaved peoples and the sentiments of the native peoples of the Americas. Bolero lyrics allude to daily...

Latin America and CaribbeanCuba / MexicoNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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Knowledge of the light rum masters

Le savoir-faire des maîtres du rhum léger

Cuban light rum emerges in 1862 in the city of Santiago de Cuba. Since then, there has been an uninterrupted transmission of the Cuban light rum masters' knowledge, which is put into practice in aging cellars, mixture areas and laboratories. The Cuban light rum masters' knowledge is a set of traditional, scientific, sensory knowledge...

Latin America and CaribbeanCubaNot specified in UNESCO dataset
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