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"Cuba has fascinated visitors to its palm-fringed shores for more than five hundred years. Columbus was one of them, claiming the county for Spain in 1492 and determining its future as the prize port of the Americas. Its fertile interior yielded tobacco and sugar cane more valuable than gold, funding a rich cultural and artistic flowering. Living in Cuba is a visual record of the island's architectural and interior legacy - the faded grandeur of Havana with its mix of colonial mansions, baroque cathedrals and revolutionary icons; grand provincial towns untouched by time; and private homes that evoke both Cuba's glorious past and its modern spirit." -- BOOK JACKET.