Cuba packages and Cuba travel deals include complete information about this famous Tourist destination located in North America. Arawak (or Taino) Indians inhabiting Cuba when Columbus landed on the island in 1492 died from diseases brought by sailors and settlers. By 1511, Spaniards under Diego Velásquez had established settlements. Havana's superb harbor made it a common transit point to and from Spain.
In the early 1800s, Cuba's sugarcane industry boomed, requiring massive numbers of black slaves. A simmering independence movement turned into open warfare from 1867 to 1878. Slavery was abolished in 1886. In 1895, the poet José Marti led the struggle that finally ended Spanish rule, thanks largely to U.S. intervention in 1898 after the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor.
An 1899 treaty made Cuba an independent republic under U.S. protection.

The largest island of the West Indies group (equal in area to Pennsylvania), Cuba is also the westernmost-just west of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and 90 mi (145 km) south of Key West, Fla., at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. The island is mountainous in the southeast and south-central area (Sierra Maestra). It is flat or rolling elsewhere. Cuba also includes numerous smaller islands, islets, and cays.

42,803 sq mi (110,860 sq km)

11,382,820 (growth rate: 0.3%); birth rate: 11.9/1000; infant mortality rate: 6.2/1000; life expectancy: 77.4; density per sq mi: 266

Havana, 2,686,000 (metro. area), 2,343,700 (city proper)

Santiago de Cuba, 554,400; Camagüey, 354,400; Holguin, 319,300; Guantánamo, 274,300; Santa Clara, 251,800

Cuban Peso

Spanish

Mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1%

Predominantly Roman Catholic and Santería (Afro-Cuban syncretic religion)

97% (2003 est.)

Sugar, tobacco, citrus, coffee, rice, potatoes, beans; livestock.

Cobalt, nickel, iron ore, copper, manganese, salt, timber, silica, petroleum, arable land.

In short most nationalities do not need a visa. You may need to wait in line, fill in some forms and pay some cash to enter.
Visitors should possess an effective passport or a trip document stating their name and the corresponding visa or Tourist Card, excepting those countries that Cuba maintains Free Visa agreements with. Tourist Cards can be requested at the Cuban consular representations.
The airline or tourist agent should give/sell you a visa card. You can also gain entry at the airport, but it would best to get a visa before arriving.