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My Top 5 Memories Of Cuba: 1. Havana Centro - Capitolio and the Cuban art; 2. Havana Veija - splendid old colonial buildings and squares; 3. Trinidad - beautifully preserved small colonial town; 4. Che Guevarra - the monument in Santa Clara, books, posters, he is everywhere; and 5. Cienfuegos - small preserved main square in a city set along a long spit of land.
The roof of the Hotel NH Parque Central in Havana Centro had spectacular views of the Capitolio, the Gran Teatro de la Habana, Hotel Inglaterra, and Hotel Telgrafo on one side.
The roof of the Hotel NH Parque Central in Havana Centro had spectacular sunset views of the Capitolio, the Gran Teatro de la Habana, Hotel Inglaterra, and Hotel Telgrafo on one side.
The Catedral de San Cristóbal de la Habana, overlooking the Plaza de la Catedral in Old Havana Vieja, was built between 1748 and 1777 and is dominated by two unequal towers and framed by a baroque facade.
Mulatta dancers wearing next to nothing or sequined costumes and giant plumed headdresses parade and perform to the whole gamut of Latin-American music at the Tropicana in Havana.
There is an excellent view over the Parque Jose Marti in Cienfuegos from the roof bar of the Hotel la Union. On the left with the red cupola is the Palacio de Gobierno; the blue building at the end of the park is the Palacio de Ferrer; to the right is the Teatro Tomas Terry; and to the far right with a red cupola is the Catedral de la Purisima Concepcion (Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception).
The Palacio Brunet, now the Museo Romantico, is a two-storey mansion in warm yellow stucco on Plaza Mayor in Trinidad de Cuba. The ground floor of the Palacio Brunet was built in 1740, and the upstairs was built in 1808. It was once owned by a sugar baron, but was converted into a museum in 1974. On the left with the yellow and green bell-tower is the former convent of San Francisco de Asís, now the Museo Nacional de la Lucha Contra Bandidos.
The Monumento Ernesto Che Guevara monument, mausoleum and museum complex, in Santa Clara is in a vast square guarded by a bronze statue of 'El Che.' The statue was erected in 1987 to mark the 20th anniversary of Guevara's murder in Bolivia. On the block to the right of Che is Che’s farewell letter to Fidel Castro in 1965 … “I feel that I have fulfilled the part of my duty that tied me to the Cuban Revolution in its territory, and I say good-bye to you, the comrades, your people, who are already mine. … Other nations of the world call for my modest efforts. … Ever onward to victory! Our country or death! I embrace you with all my revolutionary fervor. Che.”
The white sandy beach in front of Plaza America in Varadero leads to the Mansion Xanada.