Baracoa Five centuries after its establishment, Baracoa still hasn’t lost the exquisite beauty that impressed Christopher Columbus. The first village to be founded by Diego Velazquez feels and looks like an antique with a mix of hills and valleys that makes it one of the loveliest scenes in the world. It is the oldest colonial…
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Camagüey Camagüey is the capital city of the province with the same name. Located 570 km east of Havana, Cuba’s third largest city, it’s full of restored plazas and buildings, which gained it the condition National Monument and more recently a World Heritage Site. It was one of the seven villages founded by Diego Velázquez…
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Villa Clara Santa Clara, 300 km east of Havana, is the provincial capital of Villa Clara. The city was established in 1689 when residents of the neighboring town of Remedios got tired of constant pirate raids and moved inland. The city is mostly known by its recent revolutionary history. On December 30, 1958, Che Guevara’s…
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Santiago de Cuba The city of Santiago de Cuba stands in a horseshoe-shaped basin on the east side of one of the three natural harbors on the south coast of Cuba. Cuba’s second city and once the capital of the country offers imposing monuments and historical sites from almost every period of the city’s 500-year…
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Jardines del Rey On the north shore of the province of Ciego de Avila, a 27-km-long paved causeway leads to the Archipelago Jardines del Rey, offering marvelous beaches, typical vegetation, wild fauna and a quiet sea. The two main cays and tourist attractions of the archipelago are Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo. With 21 km…
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Varadero The largest resort complex in the Caribbean lies in the Península de Hicacos, 140 km east of Havana. Although a Cuban holiday center existed in the area as early as 1872, it wasn’t until 1930 that its international development began when U.S. millionaire Irenee Dupont built an estate with a mansion, golf course and…
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Holguín The fourth largest city in Cuba is located 775 km east of Havana and 200 km northwest of Santiago de Cuba. When Columbus landed at Gibara, a beautiful small fishing town 28 km north of Holguin, in 1492 thinking he was in Asia, he sent an expedition inland that came across with an Indian…
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Trinidad This colonial town is tucked into the southeast corner of Sancti Spiritus. It was the fourth village founded by Diego Velazquez in 1514. Considered a jewel of colonial architecture, Trinidad is preserved as a living museum and a must-see on a traveler’s list. The town reached its peak during sugar boom of the 19th…
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Viñales Over 200 km west of Havana and 27 km from the city of Pinar del Rio, the Viñales Valley is one of the prettiest areas in Cuba. Viñales is plain of several valleys separated by bizarre mountains called mogotes that dominate the landscape. Thanks to its rich soil, moist nights and cool mornings the…
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The Belen Neighborhood In the area near Plaza Vieja, east of Avenida de Belgica (Egido) between the streets of Teniente Rey and Merced, you will find the neighborhood of Belen, which was the great religious center of colonial Havana, full of churches and convents. The 18th and 19th centuries witnessed a wave of ecclesiastical construction,…
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