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When:
Jul 2009 (annual)
Where:
Santiago de Cuba
Cost:
Free
Opening Hours:
Day and night - dates are hard to confirm in Cuba. Check this date before you go.
The week-long raunchy street party known as the Fiesta del Fuego takes place in Santiago on Cuba's east coast. Celebrate Caribbean culture by dancing all night long, fuelled by a steady supply of the delicious Cuban Havana Club rum.
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Santiago de Cuba, "the first city of the revolution", is a town with a history of popular insurgency that long predates Castro's revolution. Like all good revolutionaries, the Santiaguerros know how to throw a good party.
The fiesta offers all sorts of entertainment: traditional bands and music, as well as sound systems playing more familiar international dance music; processions of decorated vehicles and curiously-attired dancers; all kinds of foodstuffs being sold from stalls (pork products are particularly popular) and, of course, beer and rum (bring your own receptacle - cups are not provided). Children can take rides in little carts pulled by goats, or in miniature trains.
The fiesta offers all sorts of entertainment: traditional bands and music, as well as sound systems playing more familiar international dance music; processions of decorated vehicles and curiously-attired dancers; all kinds of foodstuffs being sold from stalls (pork products are particularly popular) and, of course, beer and rum (bring your own receptacle - cups are not provided). Children can take rides in little carts pulled by goats, or in miniature trains.
Event details can change.
Please check with the organisers that the event is happening before making travel arrangements.
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