The year 2025 has started at full speed; its first week is almost over. However, the experiences of the year that ended are still fresh in our memory; its most relevant events. The images that marked the course of the last 12 months remained in our retinas and personal archives.
Every Sunday in 2024 — or almost every Sunday, to be precise — we try to show from this space images of Cuba, its daily life, its places. And, in particular, of Havana.
The Virgen del Camino, in Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.
The Cuban capital, with its neighborhoods and its people, was the main protagonist of a section that has already been going on for several years and that we hope to maintain in 2025. This is thanks to the perseverance and keen eye of our photojournalist Otmaro Rodríguez.
Intersection of Belascoain and Carlos III streets. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.
Plazuela de Albear, in Old Havana. Behind it, is one of the venues of the Museum of Fine Arts. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.
In addition, with the photographic guide of our correspondent, we observed old cannons in Havana, we discovered curious iron gates and knockers in the city; we learned about meetings of Havana entrepreneurs and otakus; and we witnessed cultural events.
To start 2025 we want to revive that memory. To remember what we experienced — photographically — in the year that just ended not only as a compendium of what was shown but also as a boost for the year that begins.
Accumulation of garbage near the Torre K Hotel, in Vedado. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Corner of Santa Catalina and Mayía Rodríguez avenues. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Flowering trees in Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.The dilapidated yellow building was the site of Cuba’s first Art Deco movie theater, the Moderno. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.“Anti-imperialist Martí” sculpture by Havana artist Andrés González, in the so-called Anti-Imperialist Tribune in Havana, a few meters from the United States Embassy and very close to the sea. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.People stand on line to withdraw money at a bank, in the Havana municipality of Cotorro. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.A garbage dump at the intersection of San Martín and Línea del Ferrocarril streets, in the San Martín neighborhood, in Cerro, Havana. Behind it, the neighborhood’s grocery store, and further back, one of the Infanta and Manglar buildings. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.A gym in the Platanito neighborhood, in the Cerro municipality, Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.The Cuban art venue of the National Museum of Fine Arts, located on Trocadero between Zulueta and Monserrate. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Cannons in Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.Otaku Freak Zona Convention, held at the Amphitheater in the Historic Center of Old Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.The old Hotel Perla de Cuba is a residential building with a dilapidated appearance. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.A dog getting his nails trimmed at a fair organized by the Animal Welfare Cuba (BAC) group in the park at H and 21, in Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.A horse-drawn carriage on the Calzada de Luyanó. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.JJ Traditional Dance Company, at the International Festival of Dance in Old Havana Urban Landscapes: City in Motion 2024. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.32nd Havana International Book Fair, at the San Carlos de La Cabaña fortress. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.
OnCuba Staff
