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Varadero beach is the most popular "sun, sea and sand" destination in Cuba due to its more than 20-kilometer-long beach of fine white sand and waters colored by the widest range of blues.
Its non deep sand platform gave the name to Varadero Beach (Varadero means Beaching-place, ship-yard, sked, skid), since in a time some ship accidentally ran... |
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Founded in 1519, the Capital City of Cuba is the cultural, scientific, economic and political heart of the country, as well as the most cosmopolitan city and the most demanded destination in Cuba.
Born from the sea, with a passionate history that begins more than 500 years ago, the city of Havana hosts one fifth (2.2 million) of the population... |
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These two contiguous islands are connected to the north coast of Cuba by a 27 km long “pedraplén” (stone causeway). They are both great beach holiday places in the Caribbean.
It’s a fabulous drive. On clear days, the transparent, mirror-calm waters reflect the clouds and the distant cays seem to float in midair, shimmering in the heat like a sort... |
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Ensenachos,Sta Maria & Las Brujas |
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Over flown by fisher hawks, wild ducks and flamingos, runs the fabulously scenic 48 km long and 46 bridges causeway that links Cayo Santa Maria with the peaceful and picturesque villages of Remedios and Caibarién in the mainland, following Cayo Las Brujas, crossing on its way through pristine waters and leaping from tiny cay to tiny cay, within the... |
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“Trinidad”, nestled between the Escambray Range, to the North, and the Caribbean Sea, to the South, is a unique and fascinating destination for all kind of travelers.
The town of Trinidad, 67 km southwest of Sancti Spíritus and 80 km east of Cienfuegos, reached its peak during the 19th-century sugar boom and seems to have been forsaken by history... |
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The city lies on the east side of Bahía de Cienfuegos, a deep, 88-square-kilometer bay with an umbilically narrow entrance and in which, as one 19th–century traveler remarked, “ all the navies in the world could rendezvous and not crowd each other.”
Cienfuegos’ appeal lies partly in the European flavor of its colonial hub, with a wide Parisian... |
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Holguín is an excellent sun vacation spiced with superb nearby natural, cultural and historical attractions.
It is considered, after Havana and Varadero, the third most important destination in Cuba, boasting remarkable landscapes that combine beach, vegetation and mountains along the hundreds of kilometers of its northern coast, with forty one... |
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Diego Velázquez founded the city in 1514 and named it for the King of Spain’s patron saint, St. Jago.
Home of rum and revolution, Santiago has a unique, enigmatic appeal and is one of the most interesting regions in the country. The second-largest city in Cuba is distinctive in mood and teems with sites of historical, cultural and natural interest.... |
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Five centuries have passed, but the place has lost none of the exquisite beauty that so impressed Columbus.
The town itself looks and feels antique, with its little fortresses and streets lined with venerable wooden edifices, rickety and humbled with age, with red-tiled eaves supported on ancient timber frames.
Baracoa is surrounded by fruitful... |
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"Pinar del Río", founded in 1699, is the westernmost province of Cuba, the third most extensive and the seventh in population.
Pinar, as people colloquially call it, counts on popular tourist attractions such as mountain ranges, beautiful valleys, forests, caves, rivers, beaches and cays.
In the valleys, the world's most exquisite tobacco is... |
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Cayo Largo del Sur, also known simply as Cayo Largo, is the best jewel in the Los Canarreos Archipelago, off the southern coast of the Cuban mainland. The archipelago also includes 300 other cays (with a total of 38 miles, or 62 km, of virgin beaches) and the Isle of Youth (the second largest island in the Cuban archipelago).
Cayo Largo, 177 kilometers... |
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