Havana Events
Carnival © Blue Serge
Havana Carnival
Parades and street parties, colourful costumes, wild dancing and
traditional music. Cubans really know how to throw a party and for
several weeks each year they do, the fun and frolics reaching high
levels over weekends when the locals put their toil and trouble
away and bring out the rum. Carnival comes with some traditions,
like effigies of well known people being paraded along the coastal
road, the Malecon, and the gaudy 'faroleros', decorated lamp posts
carried aloft by dancers.
Venue: El Malécon promenade;
Date: July and August weekends, annually
