Havana

Havana is the capital and main port and the main commercial center of Cuba, one of the fourteen Cuban provinces, with a population of 2.4 million people, making it the largest city in Havana in Cuba and the Caribbean [2]. And extending the city mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow entrance corridor which divides into three main ports are: Marjia, Joinibikua and Oterres.nehr Almendares penetrate the city from south to north, entering the Straits of Florida a few miles to the west of the Gulf . In 1959, the city stopped growing, and since then has incurred a net loss of living units, despite population growth. King Philip II of Spain Havana awarded the title of City in 1592 and a royal decree in 1634 officially recognized by its importance is designated as "Key to the New World. Spaniards began building fortifications in 1553 and transferred the governor's residence to Havana in Tllk from Santiago de Cuba on the eastern tip of the island, making Havana in fact the capital. the importance of immunizations port was recognized as early as the British and French and Dutch and thieves sea city attacked in the sixteenth century and the sinking of the US battleship Maine in Havana harbor in 1898 and was the direct cause of the outbreak of war Spanish America. today Havana center of the Cuban government and the various ministries and the headquarters of the companies are based.

Climate :
Havana, like much of Cuba enjoys a tropical climate throughout the tropical climate tempered by the island's position in the trade wind belt and ocean currents warm year. Under the classification of climate Cobain Havana has a tropical savanna climate. Average temperatures range between 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) in January and February to 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius) in August. Rarely temperature drops to less than 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius). The lowest temperature of 33 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) in Santiago de las Vegas. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Cuba is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) in Benoit, in Havana province. And frequent rainfall in June to October and at least from December through April, averaging 46 inches (1200 mm) annually. Hurricanes occasionally strike the island, but they usually hit the southern coast of Cuba, in Havana, the damage is often less than elsewhere in the country. On the night of July 8 to 9, 2005 the eastern suburbs of the city suffered a direct hit from Hurricane Dennis started his speed of 100 mph (160 km / h winds). Swept the coast of Havana waves pitched a height of 10 feet (3.0 meters) and winds tore a piece of some of the city's buildings from the colonial era where some concrete blocks fell from the colonial era buildings. At least 5,000 homes were damaged citizen in Havana and the surrounding areas. After three Ochehrfa October 2005, and the coastal areas suffered severe flooding in the wake of Hurricane Wilma.

Havana landmarks :
Fortaleza San Carlos de la Cabana, a fortress located on the east side of the bay of Havana, La Cabaña is the most impressive of the colonial era fort, especially walls built (at the same time with the El Morro fort) at the end of the eighteenth century.
El Nacional Kapetlao which was built in 1929 to be the Senate and the House of Representatives and this huge building is recognized as the dome which dominates the city's skyline. Inside this building's third largest statue in enclosed places in the world these days, a statue of the Republic. It is also the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and the National Museum of Natural History contains the largest collection of natural history in the country.
Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro majus is a stunning fortress guarding the entrance to Havana Bay was built because of the threat Alaqrasna.castelo port of San Salvador de la Punta, a small castle built in the sixteenth century, at the western entry to the port of Havana point where it played a crucial role in the defense of Havana during the first centuries of colonialism, the castle and the castle at me still twenty musket and other military artifacts.
El Cristo de Havana and the statue of Christ blesses the city from the other side of the bay is somewhat similar to Kbertmthal Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, carved from marble in with Gelma Madeira and that was in 1958, has established a platform which makes it a good center from which you can watch Old Havana harbor.
Grand Theatre in Havana hosts Offers Cuban National Ballet troupe and sometimes hosts performances of the National Opera and theater is also known Bekaa Garcia Lorca, the largest in Cuba.
Hotel Nacional de Cuba
El Malecon Habanero which is the way, which runs beside the seawall of Havana was built along the northern coast of Havana to the Almendares River, it forms the northern border of the old center of Havana and Havana.
Revolution Museum is located in the former presidential palace in the background yacht Granma displays
Nkrobuls Cristobal Colon which is a museum and cemetery in the outdoors and is one of the most famous cemeteries in Latin America, which is famous for its beauty and splendor. The cemetery, which was built in 1876 and contains nearly one million tomb. Some tombstones decorated with sculptors caliber Ramos Blancos and others.

Tourism :
Before the Cuban revolution, especially from 1915 to 1930 tourism was one of the main sources of hard currency (behind sugar and Snaaataltbg). Havana, where ether destination in the Caribbean, especially with US citizens who sought to circumvent the restrictions on travel ban for Latin. Wati then a sharp decline in the flow of tourists to the island (resulting primarily from the Great Depression and the end of the ban in the United States and the outbreak of the Second World War), Havana has begun to receive visitors in large numbers again in the fifties of the twentieth century. Tourism was in Havana limited to prostitution, gambling and so I made the revolutionary government, which came to oxidation referee says sector generates the evils of social so you must get rid of it and so the closure of many pubs and gambling halls began has assumed the National Institute for Tourism many tourist establishments, which were available to the rich Cuba to make it available to the poor also with the deterioration of relations between Cuba and the United States, the disease ban Economic Cuba since 1961, which led to Onkgad tourism industry significantly and did not return to something close to levels before the revolution, and until 1989 was the revolutionary government in general and Fidel Castro in particular in initially oppose any major development in the tourism and connecting industry domain to the debauchery and criminal activities, however change Castro's position in 1982, the Cuban government agreed to foreign investment, which was made available to a number of sectors, the law included tourism through Othah opportunity for foreign investment to create special companies (such as Cubanacán , which was established in 1987) and Cuba has worked to attract capital for hotel development and management to increase the number of tourists from 130,000 (in 1980) to 326,000 (by the end of that decade). As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe in 1989 and early Altsniat entered Cuba in a severe economic crisis and saw themselves in dire need of foreign currency. The answer is found again in the field of tourism and the Cuban government has spent large sums of money in this industry to attract visitors and by 1995 became the industry in Cuba's main source of income.