Everything about Little Havana totally explained
Little Havana (
Spanish:
La Pequeña Habana) is a
neighborhood in the
city of Miami, with many
Cuban
immigrant residents. Little Havana is named after
Havana, the capital and largest city in Cuba. The high number of Cuban refugees in Miami is due to its proximity to Cuba. Little Havana is famous as the cultural and political capital of
Cuban Americans, and the neighborhood is a center of the
Cuban exile community.
Calle Ocho
Little Havana fire hosts its annual Cuban-festive Calle Ocho street festival (part of the overall Carnival Miami celebrations), one of the largest in the world, with over one million visitors annually. It is a free street festival with a Caribbean carnival feel sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club.
Calle Ocho is a time of pride where different ethnic communities wear colors or flags representing their heritage. You can see flags from Colombia to Nicaragua to Puerto Rico to Costa Rica and even Ireland flooding the streets. Typical foods of different countries are usually sold & popular music like reggaeton, salsa, bachata and merengue is usually heard.
Calle Ocho is Spanish for Eighth Street. This festival takes place between 27th Ave and 4th Ave along Southwest 8th Street. Over 30 stages and hundreds of street vendors participate in the live music street festival now in its 30th year.
Calle Ocho earned an entry in the
Guinness Book of World Records when 119,986 people formed the world's longest
conga line on March 13, 1988.
Places of interest
- Orange Bowl
- Flagler Greyhound Track
- Cuban Memorial Plaza
- Versailles Restaurant (where all Cubans gather, many tourists visit, and every aspiring politician comes to have Cuban coffee and hold a press conference)
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Gallery
Image:2008-0426-FL-Versailles-EXT.jpg|Versailles Restaurant (foreground) and Bakery (background)
Image:Cubanmemorialplaza.jpg|Entrance to Cuban Memorial Plaza (SW 13th Ave) as seen from Calle Ocho (SW 8th St) in Little Havana.
Image:LittleHavanOct06BayOfPigsMonument.jpg|Bay of Pigs monument
Image:Josemartibust.jpg|Bust of Jose Marti
Image:Jrb_04262008_plaque_la_pena_del_versailles_.jpg|Plaque in front of Versailles Restaurant
Image:Islandofcubamonument.jpg|Memorial plaque with island of Cuba embossment
Image:LittleHavanOct06CafeteriaArt.jpg|A cafeteria with an artistic wall in Little Havana
Image:LittleHavanOct06CalleOchoDominoClub.jpg|A Calle Ocho park known for the playing of Dominoes
Image:LittleHavanOct06CalleOchoOpticaLopez.jpg
Image:LittleHavanOct06CalleOchoTowerTheater.jpg
Image:LittleHavanOct06Futurama.jpg
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