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Cubans take enormous pride in their cultural heritage and clearly consider throwing a great party to be part of that tradition.
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Carnivals are lauded as the most long-standing and most popular festival of this jovial and musical nation, and they go all out in the month of July and August with parades, street parties, colorful costumes, wild dancing, conga lines, fireworks and traditional music. The fun and frolics reach high levels over weekends when the locals put their toil and troubles away and bring out the rum. Carnival comes with some fun traditions, like the carrying of huge effigies of well-known people paraded along the coastal road, the Malecon, and the gaudy ‘faroleros,’ decorated lamp posts carried aloft by dancers.
The beautiful thing about Carnival is the celebration of all aspects of Cuban heritage and culture including contingents like the Chinese Cubans who partake very actively in festivities. Other cities in Cuba also celebrate Carnival but not necessarily at the same time as Havana. Although Santiago de Cuba is renowned for hosting the largest and most riotous celebrations, Havana’s Carnival remains the most well-known and well-attended event for tourists and foreigners. Santiago’s Carnival is in late July, usually coinciding with the celebrations in Havana; Trinidad has its own, smaller version of Carnival at the end of June. |
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