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Museo de Cera
The tiny Museo de Cera , Bayamo’s diminutive version of Madame Tussaud’s, has convincing waxworks of Cuban personalities such as Polo Montañez, Benny Moré and local hero Carlos Puebla. On a more internationalist note, theres Gabriel García Márquez and Hugo Chávez.
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Gran Synagoga Bet Shalom
Cuba has three synagogues servicing a Jewish population of approximately 1500. The main community center and library are located here, where the friendly staff would be happy to tell interested visitors about the fascinating and little-reported history of the Jews in Cuba.
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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen
The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen , a twin-towered baroque beauty dating from 1825, is another church that shares digs with a former convent. The Monasterio de las Ursalinas is a sturdy arched colonial building with a pretty cloistered courtyard that once provided shelter fo
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Exposición Mesoamericana
Every Cuban resort area seems to have an attraction replicating indigenous scenes. Here its the Exposición Mesoamericana, just east of Club Amigo Carisol – Los Corales. Indigenous cave art from Central and South America is arranged in caves along the coastal cliffs.
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Biblioteca Gener y Del Monte
Matanzas library, formerly the Casino Español, is on the northern side of Parque Libertad beside the grandiose peach facade of Hotel Velazco. The library was where the first performance of the danzonete (ballroom dance) Rompiendo la Rutina, by Anceto Díaz, took place.
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Ayuntamiento
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Plaza Santa Ana
Located on the eponymous square, which delineates Trinidads northeastern reaches, is a former Spanish prison (1844) that has been converted into the Plaza Santa Ana tourist center. The complex includes an art gallery, handicraft market, ceramics shop, bar and restaurant.
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Aldea Taína
The reconstructed Aldea Taína features life-sized models of native dwellings and figures in a replicated indigenous village. Shows of native dance rituals are staged here and there’s also a restaurant. You can usually tag along with lunchtime tour groups and get in for free.
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Museo Caonabo
In among the teeming sidewalks and peeling colonnades, this well-laid-out museum of history and archaeology is housed in the citys former bank, an impressive neoclassical building dating from 1919. There is a rooftop mirador (lookout) with a good view out over town.
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Salto del Guayabo
At just over 100m in height, Guayabo (15km from the Villa Pinares de Mayarí) is considered the highest waterfall in Cuba. Theres a spectacular overlook and the guided 1.2km hike to its base through fecund tropical forest costs CUC$5 and includes swimming in a natural pool.
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Sports Museum
South of the Benny Moré statue, this little museum (undergoing renovation, but due to reopen), bizarrely sequestered at the back of a gym, is largely devoted to local boxing hero Julio González Valladores, who brought back a gold medal from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
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El Pueblo Holandés
A small community with 49 red-roofed, Dutch-style dwellings, El Pueblo Holandés is on a hill next to the highway, 4km north of Laguna la Redonda. It was built by Celia Sánchez in 1960 as a home for cattle workers. Its an interesting blip on the landscape and worth a short detour.
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La Farola
One of the seven modern engineering marvels of modern Cuba, the so-called Lighthouse road runs 55km from Cajababo all the way to Baracoa, connecting cacti-sprinkled semi-desert with lush rainforest. There are soaring pines and a lookout at its highest point, Alto de Cotilla.
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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad
On October 12, 1948, Fidel Castro Ruz and Birta Díaz Balart were married in this unusual art deco church on Parque Martí in the center of Banes. After their divorce in 1954, Birta remarried and moved to Spain. Through their only child, Fidelito, Fidel has several grandchildren.
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La Casa de la Ciudad
Before closing for a lengthy refurbishment in 2014, this was the pulse of the citys progressive cultural life, hosting art expositions (including an original Wifredo Lam sketch), Noches del Danzón, a film museum and impromptu music events. Reopening is scheduled for late 2015.
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Catedral Ortodoxa Nuestra Señora de Kazán
One of Havanas newest buildings, this beautiful gold-domed Russian Orthodox church was built in the early 2000s and consecrated at a ceremony attended by Raúl Castro in October 2008. The church was part of an attempt to reignite Russian-Cuban relations after they went sour in 1991.
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Sendero la Sabina
More flora can be observed on the Sendero la Sabina, a short interpretive trail at the Centro Investigaciones para la Montaña (1km from the hotel), which exhibits the vegetation of eight different ecosystems, a 150-year-old tree – the Ocuje Colorado – and some rare orchids.
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Proyecto Comunitario Por la Costa
A breath of fresh air in decrepit central Caibarién, this garishly decorated arts venue raises money for town restoration through offering arts classes, selling local art and serving coffee on its cute terrace.The colorfully clad campesino (agricultural worker) points the merry way
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La Plancha
On the access road a few kilometers before the hotel, on the right, is a small flower and crop garden containing everything from mariposas to sugarcane. There have been coffee plantations growing here since the 1940s and you can peer into a still-functioning coffee drying shed.
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Fototeca de Cuba
A photographic archive of Old Havana since the early 20th century that was started by former City Historian, Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring in 1937. There are an estimated 14,000 photos inside, and they have been instrumental in providing the graphic pointers for the current restorati
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