Many qualify Santiago de Cuba as a land of music; poetry and legend, dazzled by the charms of a city that enhances these attributes every year, hosting exchanges reaffirm their status stronghold in culture.

The Caribbean Festival is one of the most renowned events, even across borders. It is the time when every July in the most Cuban Caribbean city converge folk manifestations of the the region and its streets are filled with colorful traditions and different rhythms.

Is the forerunner of the famous local carnivals, which has its highest expression in these celebrations, symbiosis of conga, Chinese bugle, French grave and rumba with popular music in a very unique sound that makes the dancers overwhelm and move up to the roofs of houses.

In the same range the International Choir Festival that takes place every two years in Santiago de Cuba suitable for such appointments where the singer grows wild and every balcony becomes emblematic songs perfect to enjoy the national repertoire and foreign scenario is inserted.

Famous Cuban musicians and elsewhere have asserted how exciting it is to hear from the public scene as follows, with a metric pitch and impressive.

Others are charmed by the choral rounds that are surprisingly diverse areas and stale legendary city, in the farewell of that festival.

Land of music, poetry and legend is a qualification that is tailored to the birthplace of the trova and their legitimate representatives Sindo Garay and Miguel Matamoros, but Pepe Sánchez, creator of the bolero Sadness, marking the birth of so like gender, rooting world.

Sufficient endorsement for this quintessential cultural plaza happens every two years to heighten the Festival MatamoroSon that special demonstration in meeting its loftiest exponents, or the kind of intimate party that creates the Bolero de Oro with authentic exponents and interpreters.

Frequently in the town are the dialogues of the best poetry that pay tribute to the birthplace of men of the stature of Jose Maria Heredia and Jose Manuel Poveda, and the prestige of intellectuals for the outstanding work done as José Antonio Portuondo and Jose Soler Puig.

It's almost 500 years of this town, founded on 25 July 1515 and each passing day its inhabitants give them new reasons to the poet: if you find a street where there is not been a hero and a door that was not open to guitars, you can then say that Santiago does not exist.