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Post-revolutionary poster art was used to promote movies for three decades after the revolution. Some of these stunning hand-printed posters, in blocks of dense colour and influenced by eastern European and Japanese design, can be bought for a few dollars from the shop at the ICAIC (national film institute). They look very cool framed and hung on the wall back home.
ICAIC office, next to the Chaplin cinema, Calle 23, 1155, entre 10 y 12, Vedado.
Visit the largest flea market in Old Havana for souveniors, paintings, carvings and T-shirts. Bargaining is possible, unlike the rest of Havana.
In Havana old town.
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