{"id":4809,"date":"2026-02-19T05:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:57:13","slug":"vitrina-de-valonia-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/vitrina-de-valonia-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-19022026\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitrina de Valonia Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dream of Eusebio Leal Spengler, the late Historian of Havana, first realized on February 15, 2006, has now marked its twentieth anniversary. The <strong>Vitrina de Valonia<\/strong>, located in Plaza Vieja in the historic center of the capital, commemorated the milestone with the opening of the exhibition <em><strong>20 a\u00f1os en 20 vi\u00f1etas<\/strong><\/em>, bringing together twenty artists trained in the institution\u2019s workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Created through a cooperation agreement with the Office of the Historian of Havana, the center is far more than a cultural venue. As a statement published on its Facebook page notes, it is \u201ctangible proof that Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels-Capital coexist within a shared project alongside Cuban culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bearing the name of a European region, the Vitrina de Valonia has, over two decades of work, become the \u201chome of Belgium in Cuba.\u201d It opened its doors on February 15, 2006, in the restored Casa del Conde Ca\u00f1ongo, in the heart of Old Havana.<\/p>\n<p>It has served as a central hub for Belgian Culture Weeks and has evolved into a genuine training laboratory for Cuban youth. At the same time, as a comics center that safeguards the heritage and culture of graphic storytelling, the institution offers an extensive program of educational activities, including reading sessions, theater performances, dance workshops, drawing contests, educational games, and film screenings.<\/p>\n<p>All these initiatives are specifically directed at children and adolescents from the Historic Center of Havana, allowing it to become \u201ca key actor in grassroots education and neighborhood cultural integration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n<p>Photo taken from Vitrina de Wallonia on Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vitrina de Valonia, located in Plaza Vieja in the historic center of the capital, commemorated the milestone with the opening of the exhibition 20 a\u00f1os en 20 vi\u00f1etas, bringing together twenty artists trained in the institution\u2019s workshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1091],"ppma_author":[244],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-vitrina-de-valonia"],"authors":[{"term_id":244,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"edelvis-lopez-zaldivar","display_name":"Edelvis L\u00f3pez Zald\u00edvar","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4812,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions\/4812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}