This twin-towered baroque beauty dates from 1825. Its former convent, Monasterio de las Ursalinas, is a sturdy arched colonial building with a pretty cloistered courtyard that once provided shelter for victims of the furious 1932 hurricane. Today it serves as the offices of the City Historian.
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Around 600m west of the frenzy of República sits another sublimely beautiful square, one less visited than the central plazas. It's backed on the eastern…
Reserva Ecológica Limones Tuabaquey
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One of Cuba’s newest reserves, these heavily wooded uplands occupy the Sierra de Cubitas in northern °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â Province. The star attraction is Cuba's most…
Museo Provincial Ignacio Agramonte
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Named (like half of °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â) after the exalted local War of Independence hero, this cavernous museum, just north of the train station, is in a Spanish…
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°ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â is home to two of Cuba's most creative and prodigious contemporary painters, Joel Jover and his wife Ileana Sánchez. Their magnificent home in…
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In Cuba's ceramics capital, the studio-gallery of Martha Jiménez Pérez shows the work of one of Cuba's greatest living artists. See everything from pots…
Museo Casa Natal de Ignacio Agramonte
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The birthplace of independence hero Ignacio Agramonte (1841–73), the cattle rancher who led the °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â area's revolt against Spain. The house – an…
Necropolis de °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â
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This sea of elaborate, lop-sided, bleached-white Gothic tombs makes up Cuba's most underrated cemetery, secreting the resting place of °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â-born…
Mercado Agropecuario Hatibonico
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If you visit just one market in Cuba, make it this muddy one. Beside the murky RÃo Hatibonico just off the Carretera Central, and characterized by its…
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Around 600m west of the frenzy of República sits another sublimely beautiful square, one less visited than the central plazas. It's backed on the eastern…
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In Cuba's ceramics capital, the studio-gallery of Martha Jiménez Pérez shows the work of one of Cuba's greatest living artists. See everything from pots…
3. Iglesia de San Cristo del Buen Viaje
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Next door to Necropolis de °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â and overlooking a quiet square, this church is probably the least visited of °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â’s ecclesial octet, but it is…
4. Casa Natal de Nicolás Guillén
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This modest house gives visitors a small insight into Cuba's late national poet and his books. It doubles as the Instituto Superior de Arte, where local…
5. Necropolis de °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â
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Dr Carlos J Finlay (1833–1915), °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â's other hero, made medical breakthroughs in discovering how mosquitoes transmit yellow fever. Calling this place …
7. Centro de Interpretacion de la Ciudad
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Cuba loves its maquetas (scale models), and °ä²¹³¾²¹²µÃ¼±ð²â is no exception. This one offers a good overview of the twisting streets of the city.
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Impossible to miss thanks to its eclectic facade (a mix of Moorish and neoclassical elements), this museum's best exhibit is the building itself. Four…