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Punta Perdiz

Punta Perdiz

Punta Perdiz, attractive site for diving. It has as a peculiarity that you can practice this nautical modality from the coast and access this way to fascinating submerged landscapes

The sea gives the lover of nature a particular beauty, entertainment and learning. These proposals have varied scenarios in Cuba, some well known, others surprising, as is the case of Punta Perdiz.

It is a space in the western part of the island, in the Ciénaga de Zapata, with an international diving center, which has the peculiarity that you...

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Cueva de los Peces

Cueva de los Peces

The Cueva de los Peces a lagoon to enjoy. As part precisely of the attractions of this area of ​​southern Matanzas, located on the road that leads to Playa Girón, Cueva de los Peces is an impressive natural clear crystal pool with more than 70 meters deep that communicates with the sea by an underground tunnel. The famous cave is a cenote, a flooded cave whose roof collapsed hundreds of years ago, giving rise to a small and deep lagoon where you can snorkel, enjoy cave diving with oxygen tanks and appreciate the beauty of the cave and...

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Museo de Playa Girón

Museo de Playa Girón

Playa Girón Museum. Memorial dedicated to the battle waged by the people of Cuba against mercenary troops of Cuban origin, supported by American naval forces, which invaded the country from April 17 to 19, 1961.

It exhibits the material evidences that bear witness to the events that took place in Playa Girón, where the first great defeat of Yankee imperialism took place in Latin America.

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Caleta Buena

Caleta Buena

Caleta Buena is an extra-hotel tourist facility located 8 km from Playa Girón in the Zapata Peninsula destination. This tourist product arises from the beauty of several associated natural resources: the cove, fauna and flora.

Within this cove there is a natural pool of very transparent waters where fish of different colors and sizes are observed. It is also part of the speleological system of the Ciénaga de Zapata, which is considered the most extensive and conserved of...

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Cuevas de Bellamar

Cuevas de Bellamar

Bellamar Caves are a group of caverns of more than 23 kilometers of galleries located in Matanzas province, Cuba. Due to the beauty of its galleries and caverns, the important paleontological findings, as well as a wide range of crystalline processes, were declared a National Monument.

The galleries and passages of the Bellamar Caves are estimated to have begun to form about 300 thousand years ago. According to scholars, the plain in which the caves are located was originally under the sea, forming part...

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Cueva de Saturno

Cueva de Saturno

About 12 km from Matanzas, Cuba towards Varadero there is a grotto where a lake with crystalline waters, known as the Cueva Saturno, appears. To get there, you have to go to the Varadero Airport and take a branch that leads to the coast, very close to the town of Carbonera. There is a well-marked tourist center.

There are abundant stalagmites and stalactites. The lake has a depth of 18 meters but its waters are so incredibly transparent that they allow you to see the bottom without any difficulty. Many stalagmites are submerged partially or totally,...

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Playa Varadero

Playa Varadero

Varadero Beach. It is one of the most famous beaches in Cuba, a heavenly place in the middle of an island that has always been in the retina of the tourists who have visited it, not only because of the tourist attractions they encounter, but because they know , that are in the middle of something historical, a city and a country, that breathes history.

The beach of Varadero is characterized part of how beautiful it is, in having soft waves, which allows you to enjoy its sea, which like all the Caribbean,...

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Playa El Tenis

Playa El Tenis

The Tennis Beach is located in the south eastern part of the Bay of Matanzas, in the space that forms the edge of the coastline with the pedraplen that crosses a few meters from this and forms the General Betancourt avenue, in the City of Matanzas, known like the Athens of Cuba.

The Tennis Beach is one of the five sandy shores that are found within the city, on the road that leads to the world-famous Balneario de Varadero, the first tourist destination...

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Playa El Coral

Playa El Coral

Coral beach. It is considered one of the most beautiful in Cuba because it has not only fine white sands but also 2 km of coral reefs that can be easily observed.

It is located in the province of Matanzas in Cuba, 100 km from Havana and only 8 km from the International Airport of Varadero (Juan G. Gomez). This site is really closer to the city of Matanzas than to Varadero. Another nearby place of tourist interest is Cueva de Saturno.

The water is very transparent, warm and green and turquoise very nice to swim because...

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Valle del Yumurí

Valle del Yumurí

Valley of the Yumurí. It is one of the most beautiful on this island, with a plain that reaches 80 hectares in its widest part and elevations of up to 150 meters and in which important archaeological remains and the endemic plant species Melocactus matanzanus are conserved. The Valley of the Yumurí is located in the Heights of Havana Matanzas, 1 km north of the city of Matanzas.

To the human eye, the Yumurí Valley is an exceptional conjunction that obliges, if not...

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Cabaret Tropicana

Cabaret Tropicana

Tropicana was built in 1939 in the Municipality of Marianao, very close to the Playa Municipo. It is also known as "A Paradise under the Stars", because it was built outdoors in a wooded area taking advantage of the cool of the trees, becoming a cabaret completely different from the traditional ones.

In 1940 he adopted the current name when the choreographer and entertainment director Sergio Orta suggested it, inspired by the homonymous melody of the composer and flutist Alfredo Brito, premiered in that same...

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Plaza Mayor de Trinidad

Plaza Mayor de Trinidad

The Plaza Mayor of Trinidad. It is the heart of the Historical Urban Center of Trinidad; It is limited by the streets Real del Jigüe, Cristo and Desengaño. Surrounded by remarkable residences the Plaza Mayor de Trinidad; It has reached the present as it was configured in the mid-nineteenth century, when the recreation park was inaugurated (1856 - 1857), the conservation of the urban environment endorses the sense of time, place and authenticity of such a remarkable site.

For several decades...

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Museo de arquitectura

Museo de arquitectura

Museum of Architecture. It is located next to the Plaza Mayor of the city of Trinidad, in the central province of Sancti Spíritus, where once was the home of the Sánchez Iznaga family, known as the Blue House.

Unique of its kind in the country, it shows the development of the vernacular house and gives the key to the understanding of the urban layout of Trinidad in interrelation with the constructive ways and the economic development linked to the tobacco exploitation and...

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Reserva Natural Rancho Querete

Reserva Natural Rancho Querete

<p>It constitutes a protected area, biosphere reserve. The lush vegetation next to the crystalline water of its waterfalls as well as tours of caves, horse riding and Creole food are part of this very tempting excursion.</p>

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Malecón de Caibarién

Malecón de Caibarién

Caibarién, is also known as the White Villa because of the luminosity and whiteness of its streets and famous for its crabs and its intense marine life. Caibarien is famous for its hospitality and its smell of the sea that is enjoyed from its boardwalk, a wall that borders the bay where every day locals and visitors gather to breathe its fresh air, enjoy the training of the athletes of the sports of the candles or some amateur fisherman who throws his pitas into the sea.

The...

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