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Antiguo Cafetal Angerona
The Antiguo Cafetal Angerona, 5km west of Artemisa on the road to the Autopista Habana–Pinar del Río (A4), was one of Cuba’s earliest cafetales (coffee farms). Its now a national monument. Erected between 1813 and 1820 by Cornelio Sauchay, Angerona once employed 450 slaves tending
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El Yunque
Baracoas rite of passage is the 8km (up and down) hike to the top of this moody, mysterious mountain. At 575m, El Yunque (the anvil) isnt Kilimanjaro, but the views from the summit and the flora and birdlife along the way are stupendous. Cubatur offers this tour almost daily (CUC$1
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Av de los Presidentes
Statues of illustrious Latin American leaders line the Las Ramblas–style Calle G (officially known as Av de los Presidentes), including Salvador Allende (Chile), Benito Juárez (Mexico) and Simón Bolívar. At the top of the avenue is a huge marble Monumento a José Miguel Gómez , Cuba
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Parque Lenin
The main things to see in the park are south of the lake, including the Galería de Arte Amelia Peláez . Up the hill theres a dramatic white marble monument to Lenin (1984) by the Soviet sculptor LE Kerbel, and west along the lake is an overgrown amphitheater and a lackluster aquari
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Mural de la Prehistoria
Four kilometers west of Viñales village on the side of Mogote Pita is a 120m-long painting designed in 1961 by Leovigildo González Morillo, a follower of Mexican artist Diego Rivera (the idea was hatched by Celia Sánchez, Alicia Alonso and Antonio Núñez Jiménez). On a cliff at the
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Memorial a los Mártires de Barbados
Las Tunas most evocative sight is in the former home of Carlos Leyva González, an Olympic fencer killed in the nations worst terrorist atrocity: the bombing of a Cubana airliner in 1976. Individual photos of victims of the attack line the museum walls, providing poignant reminders
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Castillo de la Real Fuerza
On the seaward side of Plaza de Armas is one of the oldest existing forts in the Americas, built between 1558 and 1577 on the site of an earlier fort destroyed by French privateers in 1555. The west tower is crowned by a copy of a famous bronze weather vane called La Giraldilla . T
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Bacardí Rum Factory
While its not as swanky as its modern Bermuda HQ, the original Bacardí factory, which opened in 1868, oozes history. Spanish-born founder Don Facundo dreamt up the world-famous Bacardí bat symbol after finding a colony of the winged mammals living in the factorys rafters. The Cuban
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Paseo de Martí (Prado)
Construction of this stately European-style boulevard – the first street outside the old city walls – began in 1770, and the work was completed in the mid-1830s during the term of Captain General Miguel Tacón (1834–38). The original idea was to create a boulevard as splendid as any
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Playa los Cocos
You can head up the islands east coast via this beach, where there is good snorkeling (the paved road gives out after Playa Blanca).
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Catedral de San Cristóbal de la Habana
Dominated by two unequal towers and framed by a theatrical baroque facade designed by Italian architect Francesco Borromini, Havanas incredible cathedral was once described by novelist Alejo Carpentier as music set in stone. The Jesuits began construction of the church in 1748 and
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Monumento Ernesto Che Guevara
Santa Clara’s premier site is a semireligious monument, mausoleum and museum in honor of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. The complex is just outside the town center and can be seen for miles around with its tall Che statue. The statue was erected in 1987 to mark the 20th anniversary of Guev
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Granjita Siboney
Had the Revolution been unsuccessful, this unassuming red-and-white farmhouse 2km inland from Playa Siboney on the road to Santiago de Cuba would be the forgotten site of a rather futile putsch. As it is, its another shrine to the glorious national episode that is Moncada. It was f
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Playa Coral
Your closest bet for shore snorkeling is Playa Coral, on the old coastal road (about 3km off the Vía Blanca) halfway between Matanzas and Varadero. You can snorkel solo from the beach, but its far better (and safer) to enter via the Laguna de Maya (8am to 5pm). At the Flora and Fau
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Cayo Granma
A small, populated key near the jaws of the bay, Cayo Granma is a little fantasy island of red-roofed wooden houses – many of them on stilts above the water – that guard a traditional fishing community. You can hike up to the small whitewashed Iglesia de San Rafael at the keys high
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Parque Josone
If youre set on sight-seeing in the town, ensconce yourself in this pretty green oasis. These landscaped gardens date back to 1940 and take their name from the former owners, José Fermín Iturrioz y Llaguno and his wife Onelia, who owned the Arechabala rum distillery in nearby Cárde
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Sculptures
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
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Cueva de los Portales
During the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Ernesto Che Guevara transferred the headquarters of the Western Army to this vast and spectacular cave, 11km west of Parque la Güira and 16km north of Entronque de Herradura on the Carretera Central. The cave is set in a beautiful remot
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Parque de los Enamorados
Preserved in Parque de los Enamorados (Lovers Park), surrounded by streams of speeding traffic, lies a surviving section of the colonial Cárcel or Tacón Prison, built in 1838, where many Cuban patriots including José Martí were imprisoned. A brutal place that sent unfortunate priso
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Jobo Rosado
This region, protected as an area of managed resources, is still little-explored by most travelers, although organized groups are increasingly being let in. Measuring just over 40 sq km, it includes the Sierra de Jatibonico , a range of hills that runs across the entire north of th
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