{"id":276442,"date":"2026-05-19T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276442\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:15:09","slug":"viernes-culturales-inside-little-havanas-free-walking-history-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276442\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Viernes Culturales\u2019 \u2014 inside Little Havana\u2019s free walking history tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 19, 2026 at 6:58 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/35BGHPBCUBBRJBQFBPRZKPZO6A.jpeg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI  \u2014 In Little Havana \u2014 every block has a backstory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some are loud. Some are layered. Some still live in the music floating down Calle Ocho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a neighborhood downtown that meant it didn\u2019t have a whole lot,\u201d said Dr. Paul George, resident historian with HistoryMiami Museum. \u201cIt\u2019s special to me and to see the way it\u2019s morphed into what it is now is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">From the dominoes slamming inside Domino Park to the stars stamped along the Walk of Fame \u2014 this neighborhood wears its history out in the open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Every month, George leads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miami-history.com\/p\/miamis-walking-encyclopedia\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.miami-history.com\/p\/miamis-walking-encyclopedia\">free walking history tours<\/a> through Little Havana as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/viernesculturales.org\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/viernesculturales.org\">Viernes Culturales <\/a>\u2014 the monthly arts-and-music festival designed to celebrate and preserve the neighborhood\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/features\/2026\/05\/12\/party-with-a-purpose-inside-little-havanas-viernes-culturales\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/features\/2026\/05\/12\/party-with-a-purpose-inside-little-havanas-viernes-culturales\/\">What Connects Us took viewers inside the festival itself. <\/a>This week \u2014 the streets became the story and no two tours are ever the same. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCan\u2019t do the same tour again and again because a lot of the same people come,\u201d George said. \u201cI think a lot of people like to learn about their neighborhood or another neighborhood they\u2019ve heard so much about. What\u2019s the story of this place\u2026 and they get more than snippets of it on these tours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One stop reveals Bahamian roots. Another uncovers Jewish influence. Around the next corner \u2014 Cuban history, protest movements and personal stories that helped shape Miami itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">And the crowd following along? Made up of mostly locals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Couples on date night. Families celebrating birthdays. Curious South Floridians rediscovering a neighborhood they thought they already knew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To submit an idea for What Connects Us, email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/features\/2026\/05\/19\/viernes-culturales-inside-little-havanas-free-walking-history-tours\/mailto:whatconnectsus@wplg.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whatconnectsus@wplg.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrew Perez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/e9495b67-4da9-4521-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrew Perez<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Andrew Perez is a South Florida native who joined the Local 10 News team in May 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 19, 2026 at 6:58 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(WPLG) MIAMI \u2014 In Little Havana \u2014 every block has a backstory.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-276442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}