The presence of Cubans in

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

dates back after 1990s and most of them were married to Italian citizens.

Numbers

In 2014 in

there are 20,000 regular immigrants from

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. In 2006 there were 14,000. The three cities with most number of Cubans are:

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and

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

Notable Cubans in Italy

* Mirka Francia (1975), volleyball player *

Magdelín Martínez Magdelín Martínez Castillo (; born February 10, 1976, in Camagüey, Cuba) is a Cuban-born female triple jumper, competing internationally for Italy. Biography She originally represented Cuba. She won the bronze medal at the 1999 Pan American ...

(1976),

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er *

Ángel Dennis Ángel Dennis Diaz (born 13 June 1977) is a Cuban-born Italian volleyball player. Biography He played for IVECO Palermo from 1998 to 2000. With Cuba national team, he won a World League in 1998 and an America's Cup in 2001, before abandoning h ...

(1977), volleyball player * Taismary Agüero (1977), volleyball player * Osmany Juantorena (1985), volleyball player *

Frank Chamizo Frank Chamizo Marquez (born 10 July 1992) is a Cuban-Italian freestyle wrestler who competes at 74 kilograms. Starting his career in Cuba, Chamizo became a World Cup Champion, World Championship medalist and Pan American champion at 55 kilogr ...

(1992), Wrestling player *

Libania Grenot Libania Grenot Martinez (born 12 July 1983) is a Cuban-born Italian former athlete specialising in the 400 metres. Two times European champion (2014, 2016), she holds the Italian records in the 200 and 400 metres. Biography Born in Santiago d ...

(1983), athlete player *

Amaurys Pérez Amaurys Perez (born 18 March 1976 in Camagüey, Cuba) is an Italian water polo player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the Italy men's national water polo team in the men's event, winning the silver medal. He is tall. He considers ...

(1976), water polo player

References

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Numbers

Notable Cubans in Italy

See also

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