Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, stands as an island country encompassing the expansive landscape of the Cuba island, Isla de la Juventud, various archipelagos, and a multitude of 4,195 islands and cays that encircle the primary landmass. Cuba is situated at the confluence of the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba is located to the east of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, to the south of both Florida and the Bahamas in the United States, to the west of Hispaniola (comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and to the north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.

The official land area of the Republic of Cuba is officially recorded as 109,884 square kilometers (42,426 square miles), excluding territorial waters. However, when considering the exclusive economic zone, the total expanse encreases to 350,730 square kilometers (135,420 square miles).

Cuba

Palace of Fine Arts (National Museum of Art)

The Palace of Fine Arts is otherwise known in Cuba as the National Museum of Art. It's the country's main centre for art and painting in the country. Its holdings are rich and amazing, making the museum complex one of the most important in... read more

Cuba

The garden in Soroa

The tourist centre of Soroa is a truly paradisiacal place, which is considered a national treasure of the Republic. In the eastern part of the mountainous Sierra del Rosario mountain range of Pinar del Rio province, in 1943, in the small village o... read more

Cuba

Ernest Hemingway House Museum

World famous writer Ernest Hemingway spent the last two decades of his life in Cuba. His third wife Martha Gellhorn persuaded him to buy a small house by the sea. Thus was bought "Farm overlooking the sea", or otherwise Estate Finca Vihi... read more

Cuba

Bellamar Cave

One of the main wonders of Cuba, the pearl of its unique nature can be called the Bellamar Cave. It is located near the town of Matanzas. Bellamar was discovered in 1850, when local shepherds lost a sheep, and in search of the missing animal stumb... read more

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Egypt

Khan Al-Khalili Market

Khan-Al-Khalili is a large market in the Muslim neighbourhood of Cairo, one of the city's striking landmarks. The square that Khan-Al-Khalili occupies was originally the site of the Saffron Tomb mausoleum, the burial place of the Fatimid caliphs. Emir Al-Khalili ordered the destruction of the Fatimid cemetery in 1382 in order to build a large caravanserai. At that time, this was the central... read more

Greece

Ancient Agora

In the heart of Athens, northwest of the Acropolis, lie the ruins of the Ancient Agora. During the period of ancient Greece (from about the beginning of the 6th century BC) it was the political, financial, administrative, cultural and religious ce... read more

Mali

Niono

The city of Niono is known as the "Venice of Mali" because of its system of canals and channels that criss-cross the entire city, and the local brick mosque is almost as famous as the famed Djenné Mosque.