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It was the last of the seven villages founded on the island of Cuba, in this case by the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez, under the orders of Diego Velázquez. On November 16, 1519, in the shade of a Ceiba tree that existed there, almost in front of the sea, where the monument El Templete is located since 1828, the first mass and the first town council were held, and the town was declared founded, with the name of San Cristóbal de La Habana. Its historical, architectural and, above all, cultural heritage, expressed in the fusion between Europeans, Africans and aborigines at the beginning, together with other more contemporary ethnic and cultural components, make the city a major recipient of international tourism and the center of national life.

VILLA LITA

Virgen de Montserrat

Virgen de Regla

Virgen del Cobre

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, communist politician, main leader of the October Revolution and first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the first workers’ and peasants' state. He authored a theoretical and practical set based on Marxism known as Leninism and later called Marxism-Leninism.

Granma yatch

It was built in 1943. This vessel was designed to travel short distances and had room for only twenty people. Nevertheless in 1956 it was able to transport 82 fighters .This is a 63 foot and a15 beam yatch. It is16 foot height and has a six foot height and a five point five inches height side. It had a 48 tones displacement, autonomy of 43 hours and a cruising speed of nine reef knots.

Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the Smolensk area of Gzhatsk, about 350 kilometers from Moscow. He died on March 27, 1968 as a result of an aviation accident. When he traveled to the cosmos he was 27 years old. He made the trip in a butane-colored suit. He traveled in a Vostok spacecraft. The spacecraft had a weight of 4 732 kilograms, not including the rocket that carried it. The flight started at 9 hours and 7 minutes Moscow time. It traveled at a speed of 28 000 kilometers per hour. It circled the earth once. It reached a maximum altitude of 302 kilometers and a minimum altitude of 175 kilometers. The flight proceeded normally. The descent took place at 10:55 a.m. The trip to the cosmos lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes.

Zacatecas

Zacatecas is a state in north-central Mexico. In its territory is located the archaeological site La Quemada, a large pre-Columbian settlement. Its main economic activities are mining, agriculture and tourism.

Zanja Real