Milan, Italy - All artistic manifestations flourish in Italy in summertime and with them the spaces where thousands of people come every day as happens today with the Milano Latin Festival.

The most important cultural event of this time of the year in the Lombardy regional capital, hosts a wide Cuba's representation in its third edition.

The Milano Latin Festival is a place of fun, joy and color, but also a meeting point of different cultures and integration, Nieves Machado, who is a responsible for institutional relations of the event held every summer in the Milano town of Assago, told Prensa Latina.

The event lasts 69 days, from June 8th to August 15th, and it is dedicated to the Latin American peoples, their music, dances, culinary traditions, culture, history, and customs, Machado said.

Those actions are particularly focused in 2017 on the celebration of the 'Year of Sustainable Tourism' declared by the United Nations, in the goals of the Agenda 2030 in favor of the economic, social and cultural development.

Our purpose in each edition is to have a broad representation of the Latin American countries and this year Cuba is present with a permanent stand of the Cuban Siboney Association, where there are varied offers of handicrafts and products of the island, she said.

Other associations of Cuban residents in Italy, especially in the northern part of the country, are also participating with several initiatives, she said.

Machado particularly stated that the week dedicated to Cuba with events every day on many issues such as music and literature, will be held from July 21st to 26th.

She announced that Isacc Delgado will perform on July 19th, Pedrito Calvo, Eduardo 'Tiburon' Morales, and Felix Baloy will do it on July 22nd, the Jovenes Clasicos del Son band will sing on July 26th during Cuba's Party and Los 4 band on July 30th.

Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, among other Latin American nations are also represented in the festival, where there is an institutional space for each week for a different country with activities sponsored by the consulates accredited in Milano.