Thank goodness for the sculptures in the 'city of sculptures', providing innovative, much-needed eye candy across Las Tunas' lackluster center. Start the sculpture trail in Plaza Martí, where an inventive bronze statue of the 'apostle of Cuban independence' by Rita Longa that doubles as a solar clock was opened in 1995 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of José Martí's death.
Other notables include La Fuente de Las Antilles , elaborate interwoven figures symbolising the emergence of the Greater Antilles' indigenous peoples, Monumento al Trabajo , commemorating Cuban workers, and the pencil-like Monumento a Alfabetización , marking the 1961 act passed in Las Tunas to stamp out illiteracy. You'll have to get out to Motel el Cornito to see the emblematic Janus-inspired Cacique Maniabo y Jibacoa , a two-headed Taíno chief looking in opposite directions.
Back in town the small Galería Taller Escultura Rita Longa pulls together some fine local work.
