Cuba's western province of Pinar del Rio, currently under a hurricane warning, is the center of the nation's lucrative cigar industry.

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Among the best: Hikmet Pinar on Cukurcuma Street, with its idiosyncratic collection that includes pieces of a Greek column and Ottoman wall decorations.

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Indeed one well-known monument site, known as Eflatun Pinar, holds a sacred pool that "is fed by a spring beneath the pool itself, " write Yigit Erbil and Alice Mouton in an article that was published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

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