In mid December a small delegation from the MSHP program and the Warren Lasch Conservation Center visited Cuba to explore possible collaborative projects there. The group spent five days in Havana and two in Trinidad, a World Heritage City founded in 1512 and located on Cuba’s south coast. Meetings with planners, historians, university faculty, administrators of craft training programs and some members of Cuba’s emerging entrepreneurial community punctuated field visits to historic buildings and sites. The group returned with the understanding that Cuba is poised at the brink of significant change, much of it energized by rapidly expanding tourism, that will have significant implications for the conservation of historic sites and building.
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