It is a city of contrasts.
This becomes evident as soon as the plane touches the ground in time faded from the walls, to the colorful cars of old stamps, parked on the quiet city streets, even in the elderly woman with a cigar in his fingers, which smiles on the other side of the street. Everywhere there is this amazing combination of incompatible — beauty and poverty. Cuba — Paradise for a photographer.
In the photo: One of the colored streets of Havana ©Kamira/ Shutterstock
Havana still exists somewhere in a parallel universe, and the streets seemed filled with the 50-ies. But maybe in the life of the Republic will soon begin a new Chapter.
Dancing Cubans ©nodf/ Shutterstock
A resident of Old Havana, posing with a cigar ©Frank Carlson
Retromusic on the streets of Havana ©Zotto Varga Photographer/ Shutterstock
The musicians in the city-Museum of Trinidad (his home and the Church built at the turn of the XVIII and XIX centuries). Since 1988 he is in the world heritage list of UNESCO. ©GenadijisZ/ Shutterstock
One of the streets of Havana ©dswinograd/ Shutterstock
The poet in front of the old bar “La Bodeguita del Medio”, which was attended by more Hemingway and Pablo Neruda ©Frank Carlson
Cuban devastation. The woman looks at the Malecon from the window of his old house ©Frank Carlson
Metromsheni that hikers use as taxis, lined up in front of the Capitol building in Havana ©Frank Carlson
The woman at a café in Old Havana ©Frank Carlson
Carmen Blanco Boyce — 87-year-old Cuban who supported the revolution, worried about the future of the Republic in establishing relations with US: “I want to be a friend of the United States, because I love your country, but I’m very, very scared” ©Frank Carlson
A man with a cigarette in front of the Church in Old Havana ©Frank Carlson
Car on the Malecon ©Frank Carlson
The farmer in front of a portrait of Fidel Castro ©Frank Carlson
Old cars drive past crumbling right in front of buildings ©Frank Carlson
Cuban boxers are engaged in sparring on the Malecon in front of the statue of Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary, who is considered the founder of Latin American independence movements ©Frank Carlson
The Area Of Cuba. View of San Francisco with the building of the Ministry of Finance. The dollars that are brought into the country, tourists began to be used for the preservation and restoration of colonial-era buildings ©Frank Carlson
Two generations of Cubans look out from their balconies ©Frank Carlson
Portrait of a Cuban cigar ©Filipe Frazao/ Shutterstock
Morning in Havana ©Frank Carlson
The girl launches a kite at a suburban beach ©Frank Carlson
In the background sitting down over Havana sun rises the smoke from the fuel plants ©Frank Carlson
Every evening people relax on the ocean. Malecon ©Frank Carlson
Children look at the Gulf of Mexico from the territory of the Malecon — walking areas along the ocean ©Frank Carlson
Quiet street where tourists stay, using Airbnb ©Frank Carlson
The mother and daughter. Havana ©Frank Carlson
Taxi with tourists drives past destroyed buildings on the Malecon ©Frank Carlson
A resident of Havana on the background wall with graffiti ©Frank Carlson
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