Havana, Cuba -  Matteo Renzi, President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic said on Wednesday at Havana’s Higher Arts Institute that his country is interested in strengthening cultural ties with Cuba.

Santiago de Cuba - Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Party Central Committee and President of the Councils of State and Ministers, sent a special message recognizing the Coro Madrigalista for its work over the past 60 years.

Havana - The debut of the play Harry Potter (Magic is Over) of the Cuban company El Público is one of today's attraction at the 16th Havana Theater Festival (FTH) in its fourth date.

The staging of this unfinished work in progress has generated great expectation among enthusiasts of the theater in the country and will be performed at the Trianon theater.

San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba - Our country celebrated the Cuban Culture Day with a provincial cultural activity, in the movie theater ´´Circle of Craftsmen´´. Organized by the National  Writers and Artists  Union of Cuba. The event showed the values of culture in Artemisa and mainly in the Humor Village.

Renowned Cuban writer, Leonardo Padura, has been granted the Princess of Asturias Award of Letters -one of the most coveted such prizes in the Spanish speaking world.

King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain will preside over the ceremony at the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo, Friday, representing their daughter Leonor, heir to the throne and Princess of Asturias, who will turn 10 late this month.

Havana - The Cubans remember today the 147th anniversary of its National Anthem and also celebrates the Culture Day, as a tribute to the first time that song of struggle was heard at a public square.

On October 20, 1869, just 10 days after Carlos Manuel de Cespedes rose up in arms against the Spanish colony, the anthem was first chanted in the eastern city of Bayamo.