Cuban culture
Island nation's traditions
Cuban culture is the distinctive traditions, arts, music, cuisine, and social customs of Cuba and its diaspora.
It blends Spanish colonial heritage with African influences brought by enslaved peoples, producing unique forms like son cubano, rumba, and Santería.
Cuban culture is known for its vibrant music scene, from salsa to timba, its cigars and rum, its classic cars frozen in time by embargo, and a literary and artistic tradition shaped by revolution and exile: The neighborhood's Cuban culture was evident in the domino games, the coffee windows, and the music spilling from every doorway.
- arroz con polloHispanic chicken-and-grain dish
- salsaSpicy tomato condiment
- congaCuban hand drum
- cha-cha-chaSyncopated Latin ballroom style
- décimaTen-line Spanish stanza
colonial architecture · tostones · mambo · croquetas · rumba · oral storytelling · timba · quinceañeras · dominos · Havana · Old Havana · mojito · pastelitos · guayabera · rum · sugarcane · son · tobacco
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