José Bañobre (El Tío Pepe)

An artist does not die, he immortalizes himself through creation. And although José Bañobre Álvarez, known as El Tío Pepe (Uncle Pepe) is still alive, revisiting in time the stamp of those who, like him, left their mark on our culture is a way of preserving history, that intangible part of the heritage, that beautiful fragment of a city's past.

Talent is cultivated at the Professional School of the Arts in Las Tunas

Martí used to say that art, like salt to food, preserves nations. Nurys Francisca Cantallops Borrego remembers the phrase when the El Cucalambé Professional School of Art (EPA in Spanish) embraces the last days of the current school calendar.

Closing gala of the 2023 Cucalambeana Fiesta

With the show Preludios para un poeta, staged at the Cultural Plaza, the 58th Cucalambeana Fiesta said goodbye, which became a space for the confluence of culture and tradition, beyond any harshness that could appear, as happens in any human and perfectible event.

Children defended Cuban tradition at the Cucalambeana Fiesta

Pride, enthusiasm, and the durability of traditions converged in the participation of children from Las Tunas in the Cucalambeana Fiesta, which said goodbye on July 2 with the satisfaction of having paid honor, once again, to Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo, El Cucalambé, the most important Cuban bucolic poet of the 19th century.