Cuba

Cuba

Americas 0 sights
Capital Havana
Population 10,937,000
Language Spanish
Currency Cuban peso (CUP)
National Dish Ropa Vieja
Popular Beer Cristal
Cuba is known for its socialist architecture, especially in and around Havana. Monumental public buildings, housing blocks, mosaics and memorials reflect the political ambitions and design language of the twentieth century, and they remain an important part of the urban landscape today.
Havana contains some of the most representative examples of socialist architecture in Cuba. Government complexes, cultural halls, transport infrastructure and memorial spaces illustrate how modernism and state planning shaped the capital and other major cities.
Across Cuba, mosaics, monuments and decorative art remain key elements of this heritage. They were created to communicate ideas about progress, labor, technology and collective identity, and they still define many public spaces.