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Brother  Marie-Victorin on the Varadero beach, with his sisters and a friends, 1939
Exposition Sous le soleil de Cuba [Jardin botanique de Montréal]
Under the Cuban Sun Cuba Marie-Victorin Itineraries Cuba's Provinces

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Red soil ...


... that produces some of the world's finest tobacco


People around the world who smoke those famous "Havana" cigars probably never imagine that the precious leaf grows in such a romantic atmosphere, a grandiose and softly luminous natural setting in the maze of the Pinar del Rio mogotes!

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Young people in a tobacco field


Tobacco plants

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Tobacco drying shed


The men carry the freshly cut tobacco on stretchers.
One senses that this is a timeless national rite where the different phases haven't changes for centuries.

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Under the Cuban Sun with Marie-Victorin [Jardin botanique de Montréal]


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