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Museo del Ron
You dont have to be an Añejo Reserva quaffer to enjoy the Museo del Ron in the Fundación Havana Club, but it probably helps. The museum, with its trilingual guided tour, shows rum-making antiquities and the complex brewing process, but lacks detail or passion. A not overgenerous me
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Parque Zoológico Nacional
Lets face it: you dont come to Cuba to see elephants and lions, do you? The Special Period was particularly tough on the islands zoo animals, and a visit to this park on Av Zoo-Lenin in Boyeros, 2km west of the Parque Lenin riding school, only bears out this fact. Though the zoo gr
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Memorial de Vilma Espín Guillois
This erstwhile home of Cubas former first lady, Vilma Espín, the wife of Raúl Castro, and instrumental force in the success of the Cuban Revolution, opened in 2010, three years after her death. This house, where she lived from 1939 to 1959, is packed with lucid snippets of her life
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Palacio de las Convenciones
Also known as the Havana Convention Center, this is one of Cubas most dramatic modern buildings. Built for the Nonaligned Conference in 1979, the four interconnecting halls contain a state-of-the-art auditorium with 2101 seats and 11 smaller halls. The 589-member National Assembly
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Museo de la Alfabetización
The former Cuartel Colombia military airfield at Marianao is now a school complex called Ciudad Libertad . Pass through the gate to visit this inspiring museum, which describes the 1961 literacy campaign, when 100,000 youths aged 12 to 18 spread out across Cuba to teach reading and
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Museo Casa Natal de José Antonio Echeverría
This museum has a macabre historical collection including the original garrote used to execute Narciso López by strangulation in 1851. Objects relating to the 19th-century independence wars are downstairs, while the 20th-century Revolution is covered upstairs, reached via a beautif
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Parque Alameda
Below the Tivolí quarter, this narrow park embellishes a little-visited dockside promenade that opened in 1840 and was redesigned in 1893. At the north end youll see the old clock tower , aduana (customs house) and cigar factory. A curious mix of smart architecture and port-side sk
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Fabrica de los Coches
Its worth the jaunt to observe the goings-on at Cubas only handcrafted coche (horse cart) production line. Most horse carts youll see in Cuba are metal, but these are fashioned in wood and take far longer (up to three months per cart) to produce. Youll see horse carts in various s
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El Memorial Los Malagones
Los Malagones, from the community of El Moncada, comprised the first rural militia in Cuba formed from 12 men who rooted out a counterrevolutionary band from the nearby mountains in 1959. A mausoleum and memorial fountain inaugurated in 1999 contains niches dedicated to the 12 mili
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Parque Natural el Bagá
Bagá was a commendable eco project sited on what was Cayo Cocos original airport, a 769-hectare natural park sublimely mixing dense mangroves, lakes, idyllic coastline, trails and an incredible 130 species of bird. Sublime but, unfortunately, fallen into slight disrepair, its now d
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Área Expositiva Crisis de Octubre
Looking surprisingly innocuous today, the missiles that nearly caused World War III are laid out on a grassy knoll behind the Cabaña fort put there on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 2012. Here you can ponder the Soviet R-12 nuclear rocket with a range of 2100km
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Catedral de las Santas Hermanas de Santa Clara de Asís
Three blocks west of Parque Vidal, Santa Claras cathedral was constructed amid huge controversy in 1923 after the demolition of the citys original church in Parque Vidal. It contains a fantastic collection of stained-glass windows and a mythical white statue of Mother Mary known (u
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Castillo del Morrillo
On the western side of the Río Canímar bridge, 8km east of Matanzas, a road runs 1km down to a cove presided over by the four guns of this yellow-painted castle (1720). The castle is now a museum dedicated to the student leader Antonio Guiteras Holmes (1906–35), who founded the rev
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Museo Nacional de la Lucha Contra Bandidos
Perhaps the most recognizable building in Trinidad is the dilapidated pastel-yellow bell tower of the former convent of San Francisco de Asís. Since 1986 the building has housed a museum with photos, maps, weapons and other objects relating to the struggle against the various count
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Plaza de la Marqueta
Long earmarked for a major renovation, hopelessly ruined Plaza de la Marqueta is a plaza of possibilities that remains unfulfilled. Laid out in 1848 and rebuilt in 1918, the square is dominated by an impressive covered marketplace supposedly undergoing a transformation into a top-n
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Torre de San Juan Evangelista
A church dating from Bayamos earliest years stood at this busy intersection until it was destroyed in the great fire of 1869. Later, the churchs tower served as the entrance to the first cemetery in Cuba, closed in 1919. The cemetery was demolished in 1940 but the tower survived.
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Castillo de San Severino
Northeast of Versalles lies this formidable crenellation built by the Spanish in 1735 as part of Cubas defensive ring. Slaves were offloaded here in the 18th century and, later, Cuban patriots were imprisoned within the walls – and sometimes executed. San Severino remained a prison
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Boxcar Museum
History was made here on December 29, 1958, when Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and a band of 18 rifle-wielding revolutionaries barely out of their teens derailed an armored train using a borrowed bulldozer and some homemade Molotov cocktails. The battle lasted 90 minutes, and it effectivel
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Parque Constitución
The events of 1869 are commemorated by a large monument erected in 1940 in this central park. Around the base of the monument are bronze plaques with likenesses of José Martí, Máximo Gómez, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Ignacio Agramonte, Calixto García and Antonio Maceo, the stars of
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Museo de San Juan de Dios
The Museo de San Juan de Dios is housed in what was once a hospital administered by Father José Olallo, the friar who became Cuba’s first saint. It has a front cloister dating from 1728 and a unique triangular rear patio with Moorish touches, built in 1840. Since ceasing to functio
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