Book on the 300th Anniversary of Holguín Launched at Iberoarte
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The Holguin publishing house Cuadernos Papiro officially launched the book “Holguín, ínsula embrujada,” as part of the activities of the 18th edition of the Iberoarte International Crafts Fair taking place in this eastern Cuban province.
The volume is a gift for the eastern city on the 300th Anniversary of its foundation as a town to be celebrated in April 2020 and has the legitimacy of the manufactured paper and the book-art distinctive seal that distinguishes the work of the publishing house, said to the ACN its director Manuel Arias Silveira.
The book comprises poems dedicated to the city, which were written by local writers. I has an ideal size and is identified on its cover by the aldabón de La Periquera, a symbol of this Cuban territory, explained the designer Emilio Leyva Azze.
He added that the preparation of the pages was carried out according to the purpose of the book, which is why they used minerals obtained from minerals such as nickel, iron and cobalt to print hardness and color to the product.
The presentation of the book took place at the Expo Holguín fairgrounds, main headquarters of Iberoarte-2019 and began with the reading of the poem that gives its name to the publication by its author Ronel González, who recently received the National Prize Scholarship Ciudad del Che 2019, granted by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) in Villa Clara.
Cuadernos Papiro has published more than 40 titles since its founding in 1994 and is based in a house in the historic center of Holguín, where they use typologies of the eighteenth century and American machinery dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with their original pieces, Arias Silveira explained.
The Iberoarte Crafts Fair will run until October 27 in the also known as the Cuban city of the parks with the sale of varied handicrafts and the participation of about 63 exhibitors from Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain and Cuba.
