| KNOW CUBA |
Cuba (official name, Republic of Cuba), it is set on the South of Florida, North of Jamaica, East of Yucatan Isle and the West of Bahamas and Española.
La Habana is the capital city and biggest city of all. The total surface of the island is about 1500 km from the San Antonio Cape in the West, up to La punta de Maisí, in the East. Its large shape has been compared with an alligator figure.
Cuba has become one of the most attractive destination from the Caribbean Islands. During four centuries, Cuba was the main door to the wide American empire of Spain. It was the dream of the Spaniors immigrants who came to the island for better living and working conditions.
This whole historical load has created a mixture and decadence. Its people's, ingenious and expressive, happiness adds that note of warmth that Cuba identifies. Old Havana, declared by the Humanity's Unesco Patrimony has the conserved better colonial urban center of America.
There are other important and attractive cities on the island such historical cities (Trinidad, Cienfuegos, Santiago de Cuba...), its beaches (Varadero, Guardalavaca), Viñales Valley... In Cuba you can enjoy many things such as surfing, submarinism, fishing, cycling, hunting, etc. You can also have a nice time listening and dancing the Cuban rhythms such as rumba, son and bolero.
Cuba, the bigger than the antillas, never leaves indifferent. Who the visit returns conquered. Conquered by an extraordinary town, for an architecture of a wealth and variety in the Caribbean; for the best cigarettes and the best rum in the world; for the rhythms but attractiveness never invented and for the form of living in Cuba.
Cuba has many great contrasts: beaches, woods, isles, mountains and even a dessert. In addition, 2 principal cities: Habana, La Perla de las Antillas and Santiago, La Mestiza, There are a group of amazing and exciting small cities with great attractions (Trinidad, Cienfuegos...)
Isolated of the World during but of 30 years, Cuba entered in the scene of the international tourism at the beginning of the 90, after the fall of the Soviet block. The image of Cuba this modeled by their revolution and the rising arrival to Fidel's power Castro in 1959. The doors of the global tourism are open, and the country you this transforming into the favorite tourist destination of the Caribbean.
When Cuba visits it will perceive as many aspects of its life they have been conserved intact with the step of the decades and even of the centuries: cars American old, exquisite architecture colonial, rural peasants of long mustaches, cars of horses... together to the quick rhythm of the modernization. |
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