Best Practice no 4 : International Topic of the best Callejón de las Tradiciones matanzas, Cuba practice Exact Location Historic Center of Matanzas, Pueblo Nuevo. Cuba Memory type Local Community Way of visual art, performing art expression (Intervention Type) Senses mainly Sight (main) and Touch activated Implementation September, 2011 Date Brief The Callejón de las Tradiciones socio-cultural project, located Description/Key on the limits of the historical center of Matanzas, arises from characteristics the community initiative of the inhabitants of the Pueblo (Word limit: 500 Nuevo neighborhood, on San Ignacio Street between San words) Francisco and San Juan Bautista, as a response to the problems presented by the area, which had been converted into a solid urban waste and rubble collection area. Pueblo Nuevo is home to a large part of the black and mestizo population of Matanzas, who treasure the authenticity of their roots, traditions and religion with zeal and pride. What yesterday was a settlement of numerous cabildos, today is the scene of numerous temple houses in which the most important foundations of the magical-religious expressions that arrived from Africa are guarded; today they are represented in practices of the community's popular art. Within the program of the public space it was determined to create sustainable alternatives, generate improvements in the habitat and offer jobs to the inhabitants; a popular art gallery, a dance or activity stage, a cafeteria, as well as the house of 18