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Cuba

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Take a tan?
Cuba features an average of 330 sunny days a year, over 300 beaches and more than 500 diving sites.

Population: 11,2 Million

Capital: Havana

Currency: Pesos

Language: Spanish

Size: 110,860 sq km

Time Zone :UTC-5

Beach
21 km of white sand beach in Varadero.

Music
Tropicana Club, Havana famous cabaret since 1939 and Cuban Music.

History
Sights and Symbols: From the discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492 to the Castro Revolution in 1959.

Museums

José Martí Memorial and the great view on Havana, Museum of Colonial Art, Museum of Decorative Arts, Museum of Natural Sciences, Museum of the Revolution, Napoleonic Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts, Numismatic Museum, Romantic Museum, Ernesto Triolet Pharmaceutical Museum. For a list of museums in Cuba.

Historical

Havana: San Cristobal Cathedral, Necropolis Colon (Havana Cemetery), Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, Le Capitolio, La Bodeguita Del Medio Restaurant visited by Ernest Hemingway and many others; Castle of the Royal Force (1577), Capitol Building, Inglaterra Hotel, Partagás Tobacco Factory, Discover the Paseo del Prado (Prado Boulevard), The Castle of El Morro located on the Havana Bay;

Other areas: The fortress of San Carlos de la Cabaña, erected in 1774, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, Cathedral in Camagüey, The Buena Vista estate an old coffee plantation in Las Terrazas, San Carlos Cathedral in Matanzas, Palacio de Valle in Cienfuegos (now a restaurant), Che Guevara Monument in Santa Clara, Diego Velázquez House and Asunción Cathedral in Santiago de Cuba,
Archeological site of Chorro de Maita.

Cultural

National Ballet of Cuba, House of the Americas, Foundation of New Latin American Film and National Folkloric Dance Group, Great Theatre of Havana, Guantanamera song by Joseito Fernandez.

Natural

Havana Aquarium, National Botanical Garden, Soroa (Rainbow Waterfall); Viñales Valley: Del Indio cave and mogotes (knolls with rounded tops and steep slopes); Cave of Los Portales, Botanical Garden of Soledad. Varadero area: Ambrosio Cave, Bellamar Cave, Montemar National Park. Pico Turquino in Sierra Maestra National Park: highest peak of Cuba almost 2000 meters.
Beaches: Cayo Coco: Flamencos, Prohibida; Cayo Guillermo: Pilar; Cayo Romano: Cayo Paredon Grande; Cayo Largo Island: Blanca, Lindamar, Los Cocos, Paraíso, Sirena, Tortuga; Guardalavaca Beach; Juventud Island: Punta del Este; Ancón Peninsula: Ancón, Cayo Blanco; Zapata Peninsula: Larga and Girón both located on the Bay of Pigs.
Pictures of Cuba’s beaches.

Sports

Popular in Cuba: Baseball and Boxing.
Windsurfing, Catamaran, Fishing, Hiking, Diving area: María La Gorda, Archipelago of los Canarreos, Jardines de Rey Islands.

Cities

Havana, Baracoa, Bayamo, Camagüey, Cienfuegos, Holguín, Matanzas, Pinar del Río, Santiago de Cuba, Santa Clara, Sancti Spíritus.

Food

Recipes, Rum and The Havana Club Distillery that you can visit in Havana.

UNESCO

World Heritage sites of Cuba
Cultural
Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba (2000)
Old Havana and its Fortifications (1982)
San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba (1997)
Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios (1988)
Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos (2005)
Viñales Valley (1999)
Natural
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park (2001)
Desembarco del Granma National Park (1999)

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