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La Jungla de Jones
Situated 6km west of La Fe in the direction of Hotel Colony, this is a botanical garden containing more than 80 tree varieties. Bisected by shaded trails and punctuated by a cornucopia of cacti and mangoes, this expansive garden was established by two American botanists, Helen and
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Estatua de Cristo
Created in 1958 by Jilma Madera. It was promised to President Batista by his wife after the US-backed dictator survived an attempt on his life in the Presidential Palace in March 1957, but was (ironically) unveiled on Christmas Day 1958 one week before the dictator fled the country
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El Pinero
Two blocks east of Parque Guerrillero Heroico, youll see a huge black-and-white ferry set up as a tatty memorial next to the river. This is El Pinero, the original boat used to transport passengers between La Isla and the main island. On May 15, 1955, Fidel and Raúl Castro, along w
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Palacio del Segundo Cabo
Wedged into the squares northwest corner, this building was constructed in 1772 as the headquarters of the Spanish vice-governor. After several reincarnations as a post office, the palace of the Senate, the Supreme Court, the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and the seat of th
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El Cornito
The grounds around Motel El Cornito (about 6km outside town) are bamboo woods which offer a welcome, shady diversion from the scorching city bustle. Youll find ranchón -style restaurants (favoring the usual booming reggaetón music), the site of the old farmhouse of great Las Tunas
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Reserva Ecológica Varahicacos
A few hundred meters beyond Cueva de Ambrosio is the entrance to Varaderos nominal green space and a wildlife reserve thats about as wild as New Yorks Central Park. Bulldozers have been chomping away at its edges for years. There are three underwhelming trails. Highlights are the C
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Museo de la Plata
Five kilometers west of Las Cuevas (which is 40km west of El Uvero) is this small museum at La Plata, just below the highway. The first successful skirmish of the Cuban Revolution happened here on January 17, 1957. Museum exhibits include the piece of paper signed by the 15 Granma
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Fundación de la Naturaleza y El Hombre
Replicating its equally diminutive namesake in Miramar, Havana, this museum on Parque Maceo chronicles the 17,422km canoe odyssey from the Amazon to the Caribbean in 1987 led by Cuban writer and Renaissance man Antonio Nuñez Jiménez (1923–98). Some 432 explorers made the journey th
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Casa de Arte Jover
Camagüey is home to two of Cubas most creative and prodigious contemporary painters, Joel Jover and his wife Ileana Sánchez. Their magnificent home in Plaza Agramonte functions both as a gallery and a piece of art in its own right, with a slew of original art and delightfully kitsc
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Palacio Salcines
Local architect Leticio Salcines (1888–1973) left a number of impressive works around Guantánamo including his personal residence built in 1916, a lavish monument said to be the building most representative of the city. The palacio is now a museum of colorful frescoes, Japanese por
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Museo Histórico Naval Nacional
Across the railway tracks five blocks northwest of Parque Martí is the eye-catching location of this rose-pink museum, dating from 1933. Its housed in the former headquarters of the Distrito Naval del Sur, and approached by a wide drive flanked with armaments dating from different
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Peña de Polo Montañez
The former lakeside house of local guajiro musician Polo Montañez, regarded as one of Cuba’s finest-ever folk singers, is now a small museum containing various gold records and assorted memorabilia. It’s right in the village overlooking the lake. Polo’s most famous songs include ‘
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Mausoleo a los Mártires de Artemisa
Revolution buffs may want to doff a cap to the Mausoleo a los Mártires de Artemisa. Of the 119 revolutionaries who accompanied Fidel Castro in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks, 28 were from Artemisa or this region. Fourteen of the men buried below the cube-shaped bronze mau
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Jardín Botánico Nacional
Across the highway from ExpoCuba is this 600-hectare botanical garden. The Pabellones de Exposición (1987), near the entry gate, is a series of greenhouses with cacti and tropicals, while 2km beyond is the gardens highlight, the tranquil Japanese Garden (1992). Nearby is the celebr
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Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
Any exploration of Camagüeys religious history should begin at its most important church, the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, rebuilt in the 19th century on the site of an earlier chapel dating from 1530. The cathedral, which is named for the citys patron saint, was fu
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Parque Histórico Abel Santamaría
This is the site of the former Saturnino Lora Civil Hospital, stormed by Abel Santamaría and 60 others on that fateful July day (they were later tortured and killed). On October 16, 1953, Fidel Castro was tried in the Escuela de Enfermeras for leading the Moncada attack. It was her
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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Merced
The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Merced , dating from 1748, is, arguably, Camagüey’s most impressive colonial church with a history imbued with legend. Local myth tells of a miraculous figure that floated from the watery depths here in 1601 and it has been a spot of worship ever
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Boulevard
The citys revived shopping street, Calle Independencia Sur, is traffic-free and lined with statues, sculptures and myriad curiosity shops. Check out the opulent Colonia Española Building , once a whites-only gentlemens club, now a mini–department store. The agropecuario (vegetable
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Acuario Nacional
Founded in 1960, the national aquarium is a Havana institution that gets legions of annual visitors. Despite its rather scruffy appearance, this place leaves most other Cuban acuarios (aquatic centers) in the shade (which isnt saying much). Saltwater fish are the specialty, but the
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Marina Hemingway
Havana’s premier marina was constructed in 1953 in the small coastal community of Santa Fe. After the Revolution it was nationalized and named after Castro’s favorite Yanqui . The marina has four 800m-long channels, a dive center, motley shops and restaurants and two hotels (one cu
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