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La Florida tiene mucha historia relacionada con los cubanos. Para empezar, La Florida antes pertenecía a la Capitanía General de Cuba. En...

These two brothers are perhaps my favorite since, as a fellow Cuban-American, they served not only with honor in the United States but...

Born in 1844 to Cuban parents, Dolores “Lola” Sánchez was one of five children alongside her siblings Emiliano, John Henry, Francesca...

A native of Cuba (then a Spanish colony), Gonzáles was born in 1818 to a prominent local family in the city of Matanzas. From an early...

A native of Pinar del Río Province in Cuba, Paulina Pedroso and her husband Ruperto became one of the many Cubans who first migrated to...

Perhaps one of the most fascinating parts of Florida’s history is that of its discovery by a Spanish conquistador named Juan Ponce de...

Christmas (in Spanish, Navidad), celebrated on December 25th, is meant to commemorate and memorialize the birth of Jesus Christ, who...

Following the failed La Trinidad expedition, Don Luis went to live in Seville where he became a follower of the Jesuits. Despite the...

In follow-up to my earlier posts, Part 1 and Part 2, we are now going to be talking about two figures with very interesting stories. One...