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Museo Municipal de Regla
If youve come across to see Reglas church, you should also check out this important museum. Spread over two sites, one adjacent to the church and the other (better half) a few blocks up the main street from the ferry, it records Reglas history and Afro-Cuban religions. Dont miss th
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Casa Guachinango
Three kilometers beyond the Manaca Iznaga, on the valleys inland road, is an old hacienda built by Don Mariano Borrell toward the end of the 18th century. The building now houses a restaurant. The Río Ay is just below, and the surrounding landscape is truly wonderful. Horseback rid
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Fuerte Matachín
Baracoa is protected by a trio of muscular Spanish forts. This one, built in 1802 at the southern entrance to town, houses the Museo Municipal . The small but beautiful building showcases an engaging chronology of Cubas oldest settlement including polymita snail shells, the story o
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Jardín de los Helechos
The peaceful garden is a lush haven of 350 types of ferns and 90 types of orchids. Its the erstwhile private collection of santiagüero Manuel Caluff, donated in 1984 to the Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (Cuban Academy of Science), which continues to keep the 3000-sq-m garden in psyc
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Gran Caverna de Santo Tomás
Welcome to Cuba’s largest cave system and the second-largest on the American continent. There are over 46km of galleries on eight levels, with a 1km section accessible to visitors. There’s no artificial lighting, but headlamps are provided for the 90-minute guided tour. Highlights
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Parque Nacional Monumento Bariay
Ten kilometers west of Playa Pesquero and 3km west of Villa Don Lino is Playa Blanca ; Columbus is thought to have landed somewhere near here in 1492, and this great meeting of two cultures is commemorated in a varied mix of sights, the centerpiece of which is an impressive Helleni
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Museo Provincial Ignacio Agramonte
Named (like half of Camagüey) after the exalted local War of Independence hero, this cavernous museum, just north of the train station, is in a building erected in 1848 as a Spanish cavalry barracks. It now contains some impressive artwork, including much by Camagüey natives like F
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Central Camilo Cienfuegos
Standing disused on a hilltop like a huge rusting iron skeleton, this former sugar mill, 5km south of Santa Cruz del Norte, was one of Cuba’s largest and a testimony to the country’s previous production clout. Opened in 1916, it once belonged to the Philadelphia-based Hershey Choco
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Cafetal la Isabelica
The hub of the Unesco World Heritage Site bestowed in 2000 upon the First Coffee Plantations in the Southeast of Cuba is this impressive two-story stone mansion, with its three large coffee-drying platforms, built in the early 19th century by French émigrés from Haiti. Its a 2km hi
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Parque Calixto García
The centerpiece of this park lined with weird robles africanos – African oaks with large penis-shaped pods – is Iglesia de San Fulgencio , built in 1850 but recently the recipient of a gleaming renovation. The Statue of Liberty in front commemorates the Spanish-Cuban-American War.
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Iglesia del Santo Ángel Custodio
Originally constructed in 1695, this church was pounded by a ferocious hurricane in 1846, after which it was entirely rebuilt in neo-Gothic style. Among the notable historical and literary figures that have passed through its handsome doors are 19th-century Cuban novelist Cirilo Vi
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Museo de la Comandancia
During the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, Fidel Castro had his headquarters in the former office of the sugar mill, but today the building is devoted to this revolutionary museum (closed for refurbishment at the time of research.) You can see the desk and phone from where Fidel command
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Iglesia y Monasterio de San Francisco de Asís
Originally constructed in 1608 and rebuilt in baroque style from 1719 to 1738, this church/convent ceased to have a religious function in the 1840s. In the late 1980s crypts and religious objects were excavated, and many were later incorporated into the Museo de Arte Religioso that
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Museo Chorro de Maita
This archaeological-site-based museum protects the remains of an excavated Indian village and cemetery, including the well-preserved remains of 62 human skeletons and the bones of a barkless dog. The village dates from the early 16th century and is one of nearly 100 archaeological
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Murals
Heading west on Carretera Central (the extension of Marta Abreu), youll reach a series of comic book–style murals with a tongue-in-cheek look at Cuban-American relations as the predominant theme. Glimpse such scenes as the Statue of Liberty being made off with by Cuban helicopters
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Zoológico de Piedras
A surreal spectacle even by Cuban standards, the Zoológico de Piedras is an animal sculpture park set amid thick foliage in the grounds of a mountain coffee farm, 20km northeast of Guantánamo. Carved quite literally out of the existing rock by sculptor Angel Iñigo Blanco starting i
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Edificio Santo Domingo
On Obispo is the site of Havanas original university, which stood here between 1728 and 1902. It was originally part of a convent; the contemporary modern office block was built by Habaguanex in 2006 over the skeleton of an uglier 1950s office, the roof of which was used as a helic
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Museo del Humor
Unique in Cuba is this fun selection of cartoons, caricatures and other entertaining ephemera. Among the drawings exhibited in a neoclassical colonial house are saucy cartoons, satirical scribblings and the first known Cuban caricature, dating from 1848. Visit in April for extra la
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Laguna del Tesoro
This lake is 5km east of Boca de Guamá via the Canal de la Laguna, accessible only by boat. On the far (east) side of the 92-sq-km body of water is a tourist resort named Villa Guamá, built to resemble a Taíno village, on a dozen small islands. A sculpture park next to the mock vil
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Colina Lenin
From the museum, head straight (south) on Martí past Parque Guaicanamar, and turn left on Albuquerque and right on 24 de Febrero, the road to Guanabacoa. About 1.5km from the ferry youll see a high metal stairway that gives access to Colina Lenin, one of two monuments in Havana to
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