Havana Historian to Give Keynote Lecture in Guatemala

HAVANA, Cuba, March 27 (acn) Havana Historian Eusebio Leal will participate in an international seminar on restoration and will offer a keynote lecture at the National Museum of Ethnology in Guatemala City.

According to the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Leal has received honorary doctorates from eight universities from all over the world and has received numerous awards in recognition of his restoration work in Old Havana, declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

These awards include the International Architecture Award from Belgium; the ‘Queen Sofia’ Award for Restoration and Preservation of the Cultural Heritage from Spain; and the Medal of the World Decade of Development, granted by UNESCO.

Leal’s work of restoration in Old Havana has been characterized by a combination of the preservation of old buildings with new projects of social development, the improvement of housing conditions and the creation of sources of employment.


(Dictará Eusebio Leal conferencia magistral en Guatemala)