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Gabinete de Arqueologia
See the rainbow of influences on Cubas colonial culture from everyday artifacts dug up nearby. Of particular interest are the ceramics which demonstrate a 17th- and 18th-century penchant for English china, Chinese porcelain and Mexican ceramics among the Spanish-Cuban aristocracy.
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Casa Museo del Café
Coffee has been grown in the Escambray mountains for over two centuries, and in this small rustic cafe you can fill in the gaps on its boom-bust history while sipping the aromatic local brew (called Cristal Mountain). Just up the road there is the Jardín de Variedades del Café , a
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Maqueta de la Ciudad
Aping Havanas two impressive scale models of the city, Santiago has come up with its own incredibly detailed maqueta . Interesting historical and architectural information is displayed on illustrated wall panels and you can climb up to a mezzanine gallery for a true vultures-eye vi
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Marina Gaviota
At the peninsulas eastern tip, Marina Gaviotas impressive expansion now encompasses a wide malecón alongside the marina joining new hotel Meliá Marina Varadero with designer shops and restaurants, and the popular Sala de la Musica music venue. Cubans come from miles around to marve
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City Bank of NY Building
Although it may be a little dingy these days, Manzanillo is well known for its striking architecture, a psychedelic mélange of wooden beach shacks, Andalusian-style townhouses and intricate neo-Moorish facades. Check out the old City Bank of NY building , dating from 1913, or the r
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Valle de los Ingenios
The ruins of dozens of ingenios (small 19th-century sugar mills), including slave quarters and manor houses, are scattered throughout this valley. The royal palms, waving cane and rolling hills are timelessly beautiful. The prime sight is Manaca Iznaga, an estate purchased in 1795
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La Fuente de Las Antilles
A work first unveiled in 1977 that was elemental in reviving Cuba’s sculpturing traditions and making Las Tunas its HQ. The sculpture comprises a huge fountain filled with elaborate interwoven figures symbolising the emergence of the Greater Antilles indigenous peoples from the Car
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Memorial a José Martí
Center-stage in Plaza de la Revolución is this monument, which at 138.5m is Havanas tallest structure. Fronted by an impressive 17m marble statue of a seated Martí in a pensive Thinker pose, the memorial houses a museum – the definite word on Martí in Cuba – and a 129m lookout reac
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Palacio de los Condes de Casa Bayona
The squares southern aspect is taken up by its oldest building, constructed in 1720. Today it functions as the Museo de Arte Colonial , a small museum displaying colonial furniture and decorative arts. Among the finer exhibits are pieces of china with scenes of colonial Cuba, a col
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Iglesia de la Caridad
Iglesia de la Caridad stands sentinel on the southeastern edge of the city. Constructed originally as a chapel in the 18th century, it got a couple of 20th-century renovations (1930 and 1945) and has a fine silver altar (c.1730) and image of the Virgin de la Caridad del Cobre compl
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Iglesia y Convento de Nuestra Señora de la Merced
Built in 1755, this hemmed-in church was reconstructed in the 19th century. Beautiful gilded altars, frescoed vaults and a number of old paintings create a sacrosanct mood; theres a quiet cloister adjacent. Two blocks away is the rather neglected Iglesia Parroquial del Espíritu San
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Monumento a Julio Antonio Mella
At the bottom of the university steps there is a monument to the student leader who founded the first Cuban Communist Party in 1925. In 1929 the dictator Machado had Mella assassinated in Mexico City. More interesting than the monument itself are the black-and-white Mella portraits
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Museo Casa Natal Jesus Montané
A recently refurbished museum in a freshly painted green house that documents the life of revolutionary, Jesús Montané who was born here. Montané took part in the Moncada Barracks attack in 1953, fought alongside Fidel in the Sierra Maestra, and served in the post-1959 government.
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Laguna Guanaroca
Laguna Guanaroca is a mangrove-rimmed saline lake southeast of Cienfuegos. Its second only to Las Salinas on the Zapata Peninsula as a bird magnet, and is Cienfuegos Provinces only area protegida (natural protected area). Trails lead to a viewing platform where flamingos, pelicans
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Monumento a Calixto García
Guarding the entrance to Calle G on the Malecón is the equestrian Monumento a Calixto García, paying homage to the valiant Cuban general who was prevented by US military leaders in Santiago de Cuba from attending the Spanish surrender in 1898. Twenty-four bronze plaques around the
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Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Tucked away behind Plaza Vieja, the Brau is a leading cultural institution that was formed under the auspices of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (Uneac; Union of Cuban Writers and Artists) in 1996. The center hosts expositions, poetry readings and live acoustic music. It
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Iglesia de Nuestra Corazón de Sagrado Jesús
One of Cuba’s rare Neo-gothic churches beautifies Parque Martí, a few blocks east of Parque Ignacio Agramonte. The triple-spired Iglesia de Nuestra Corazón de Sagrado Jesús is technically from an architectural subgenre called Catalan Gothic and dazzles with its ornate stained glass
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Museo de Ciencias Naturales Sandalio de Noda
A mad but magnificent neo-Gothic-meets-Moorish-meets-Hindu-meets-Byzantium mansion built by local doctor and world traveler Francisco Guasch in 1914. Once youve got over shock of the whimsical exterior (gargoyles, turrets and sculpted seahorses), the decrepit exhibits inside will s
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Plaza de Dolores
East of Parque Céspedes is the pleasant and shady Plaza de Dolores, a former marketplace now dominated by the 18th-century Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores . After a fire in the 1970s, the church was rebuilt as a concert hall (Sala de Conciertos Dolores). Many restaurants a
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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario
The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario , also called the Catedral de los Campos de Cuba, on Santa María del Rosario’s old town square, was built in 1720 by the Conde de Casa Bayona near the Quiebra Hacha sugar mill, of which nothing remains today. Inside are a gilded mahogany al
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