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Museo Nacional Camilo Cienfuegos
This excellent museum at Yaguajay, 36km southeast of Caibarién, was opened in 1989 and is eerily reminiscent of the Che Guevara monument in Santa Clara. Camilo fought a crucial battle in this town on the eve of the Revolutions triumph, taking control of a local military barracks (n
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Museo de Batalla de Ideas
The newest of Cárdenas three museums offers a well-designed and organized overview of the history of US–Cuban relations, replete with sophisticated graphics. Inspired by the case of Elián González, a boy from Cardeńas whose mother, stepfather and 11 others drowned attempting to ent
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Playa Pilar
A sublime strip of sand regularly touted as Cubas (and the Caribbeans) best beach, Playa Pilar earns its moniker courtesy of its diamond-dust white sand and the rugged 15m-high sand dunes (the largest of their kind in the Caribbean) strafed by trails that incite piratical explorati
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Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Santiagos most important church is stunning both inside and out. There has been a cathedral on this site since the citys inception in the 1520s, though a series of pirate raids, earthquakes and dodgy architects put paid to at least three previous incarnations. The present cathedral
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Castillo de los Tres Santos Reyes Magnos del Morro
This imposing fort was erected between 1589 and 1630 to protect the entrance to Havana harbor from pirates and foreign invaders (French corsair Jacques de Sores had sacked the city in 1555). Perched high on a rocky bluff above the Atlantic, the forts irregular polygonal shape, 3m-t
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Cuba has a huge art culture, and at this dual-site art museum you can spend a whole day viewing everything from Greek ceramics to Cuban pop art. Arranged inside the fabulously eclectic Centro Asturianas (a work of art in its own right), the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Arte Univ
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Museo Conjunto Histórico de Birán
Finca las Manacas opened as a museum in 2002 under this unassuming name, supposedly to downplay any Castro personality cult. This gaggle of attractive wooden buildings on an expanse of lush grounds constitutes a pueblito (small town) and makes a fascinating excursion. The complex i
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Conjunto Escultórico Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara
The end point of many a Che pilgrimage, this monument, mausoleum and museum complex is 2km west of Parque Vidal (via Rafael Tristá on Av de los Desfiles), near the Víazul bus station. Even if you cant stand the Argentine guerrilla for whom many reserve an almost religious reverence
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Cuartel Moncada
Santiagos famous Moncada Barracks, a crenellated art deco building completed in 1938, is now synonymous with one of historys greatest failed putsches. Moncada earned immortality on July 26, 1953, when more than 100 revolutionaries led by then little-known Fidel Castro stormed Batis
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Presidio Modelo
Welcome to the islands most impressive yet depressing sight. Located near Reparto Chacón, 5km east of Nueva Gerona, this striking prison was built between 1926 and 1931, during the repressive regime of Gerardo Machado. The four rather scary-looking six-story, yellow circular blocks
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Calle Mercaderes
Cobbled, car-free Calle Mercaderes (Merchants Street) has been extensively restored by the City Historians Office and is an almost complete replica of its splendid 18th-century high-water mark. Interspersed with the museums, shops and restaurants are some real-life working social p
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Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña
This 18th-century colossus was built between 1763 and 1774 on a long, exposed ridge on the east side of Havana harbor to fill a weakness in the citys defenses. In 1762 the British had taken Havana by gaining control of this strategically important ridge, and it was from here that t
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Capitolio Nacional
The incomparable Capitolio Nacional is Havanas most ambitious and grandiose building, constructed after the post-WWI sugar boom (Dance of the Millions) gifted the Cuban government a seemingly bottomless treasure box of sugar money. Similar to the Washington, DC Capitol Building, bu
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Comandancia de la Plata
Topping a crenellated mountain ridge amid thick cloud forest, this pioneering camp was established by Fidel Castro in 1958 after a year on the run in the Sierra Maestra. Well camouflaged and remote, the rebel HQ was chosen for its inaccessibility and it served its purpose well – Ba
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Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca del Morro
A Unesco World Heritage Site since 1997, the San Pedro fort sits impregnably atop a 60m-high promontory at the entrance to Santiago harbor, 10km southwest of the city. The stupendous views from the upper terrace take in the wild western ribbon of Santiagos coastline backed by the v
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Taller
Where does art go after Gaudí and Picasso? For a hint, head west from central Havana to Jaimanitas, where Cuban artist José Fuster (b 1946) has turned his home neighborhood into a masterpiece of tiles, turrets and extraordinary Barcelona-worthy beauty. Its nexus is the Taller-Estud
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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Regla
As important as it is diminutive, Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Regla, which sits close to the boat dock in the municipality of Regla, has a long and colorful history. Inside on the main altar youll find La Santísima Virgen de Regla. The virgin, represented by a black Madonna, is ve
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Malecón
The Malecón, Havanas evocative 8km-long sea drive, is one of the citys most soulful and quintessentially Cuban thoroughfares. Long a favored meeting place for assorted lovers, philosophers, poets, traveling minstrels, fisherfolk and wistful Florida-gazers, the Malecóns atmosphere i
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Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón
Once described as an exercise in pious excesses, this cemetery (a national monument), one of the largest in the Americas, is renowned for its striking religious iconography and elaborate marble statues. Far from being eerie, a walk through these 56 hallowed hectares can be an educa
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U.S. Law and Travel to Cuba in 2010
Havana, Cuba. Photo © Rinaldo Wurglitsch, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Cuba has no restrictions on international travel. Moon Cuba provides complete travel information for all travelers, regardless of origin. However, the U.S. government does. Most yanquis harbor the false impression tha
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