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Varadero
Already makes more than one century, December 5, 1887, the City Council of Cardenas approved the first urbanization of this beach area, located in the most northern point in the country and extended along 22 kilometers on the north coast of the Hicacos Peninsula, an earth piece that during more than 300 years it had only been exploited there by the existence of productive saline and dense forests.
With the result that didn't start until final of the decade of 1920 when, of the hand of the multimillionaire Irenee Dupont, Varadero began to win a space in the North American market and, starting from the 30s , to be in the summer vacation itineraries of the Cuban high classes.
Today this tourist pole -that receives around 70% of the entirety of visitors that arrive at the Island next to the City of Havana - it has an international airport, a solid and varied hotel infrastructure, and multiple options to satisfy the likes more dissimilar. The fact of also having the Plaza America Center of Conventions reinforces its potentiality like destination for the tourism of congresses and incentives. |
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Fine white sands and transparent waters of never imagined blue tonalities, constitute the biggest virtues of this well- preserved beach, capable for the enjoyment of all the nautical-recreational sports (with or without motor). Varadero that is free port possesses exceptional conditions for the practice of the diving, because it has 32 immersion places in an area defined by the bay of Matanzas, and the western end of the archipelago Jardines del Rey (Gardens of the King).
Scenarios very eulogized by the plungers are those that offer the call Blue Hole, Eye of the Mégano, enormous cavern located in the near reefs to the bay of Cádiz (near the limits with Villa Clara), and the marine park Piedras del Norte Key, first and only attraction of their existent type, and that occupies an area of approximately two square nautical miles.
A yacht of 40 length meters; a rocket boat; an airplane of fleeting AN-24; a frigate of 102 length meters completely full of ammunitions, and a tug are intentionally the sunken pieces starting from 1996 in this area, located to about eight nautical miles to the northeast of the beach and in which you can intrude, as much professional divers as fans.
The ecological reservation Punta Hicacos has for the tourist a different proposal: to know the caves of Ambrosio and of the Musulmanes, where dozens of aboriginal pictography are conserved; to come closer to the Mangón Lagoon, in which 662 species of birds and 24 of reptiles have been identified; and to travel very behind in the natural history when noticing the Patriarch’s presence, a cactus of more than 600 years of age.
An International Center of Jumps with Parachute; the Varadero Golf Club, only professional field of the Island of 18 holes couple 72; the baths with dolphins in the aquarium; dozens of trips on board sailing ships and catamarans to the keys of the north; walks in aqua-ray for the sand-banks of the south; the possibility to organize an encounter in the Plaza America Center of Conventions, or of enjoying the services of the green lung of the spa, the Parque Josone, is other of the attractiveness of a city in the one that you don't lack the places where to spend well the night.
The famous spa is, also, very near two important towns: Cardenas and Matanzas. Of the first one, also called the Flag City to be, precisely there, where it waved the national emblem for the first time, they only separate it 13 kilometers. To the provincial capital the distance is of 35 kilometers. |
