Cuban celebrations

Cuba is a really Catholic and fun place.

So it´s normal they have a lot of celebrations.

The most important religious celebration is the "peregrinación"

The pilgrimage to the San Lázaro temple on the outskirts of Havana is the most important religious activity in Cuba. Maximum expression of syncretism, summoning tens of thousands of Cubans Catholics and Santeros every December 16 and 17, most of them doing penance in payment of some miracle granted by the old Lazaro.

The carnivals

They are the traditional Cuban festivals that have their antecedents in the celebrations celebrated by the Hispanics and their descendants. It has own elements such as costumes, floats, comparsas, and parades among others.

In the capital, they were celebrated around the three days before Lent.

The most popular are those of Santiago de Cuba, Camagüey and Havana; In the first, almost all the comparsas originated in French tombs and African cabildos due to the French cultural influence.

Las parrandas y charangas

They are another type of traditional festival that has many points in common with carnivals by the use of floats and changüies. The best known are those of Remedios in the province of Villa Clara and those of Bejucal in Havana but they are also celebrated in Sancti Spíritus and in Ciego de Avila.In them, the population is divided into neighborhoods that compete with each other in terms of jobs, floats, pyrotechnics, music, etc.

References:

Ramírez, I. S. (2000). Las festividades asturianas y las celebraciones del ejército español en Cuba durante el período de las guerras independentistas (1868-1898). Militaria: revista de cultura militar, (14), 209-244.

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