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Villa Clara
During the last years, the central Cuban province has received circuit tourism for the most part, attracted by the narrow linking of its capital city with the legendary major guerilla Ernesto's figure Ché Guevara who liberated decisive combats there in the final stage of the fight for the definitive national liberation in the twilights of December of 1958.
Santa Clara is a neat and calm city, been founded in 1689 and that has, in the Memorial Museum erected the Ché Guevara and her fallen partners in combat in Bolivia, the theater La Caridad (1885) and the Leoncio Vidal park, places that deserve to be known. It counts, also, with the advantage that its own geographical position grants it, placing it to 267 kilometers of City of Havana, 74 of Cienfuegos, 207 of Varadero and barely 88 of Trinidad.
Camajuaní, eminently agricultural municipality in which are plentiful the good spindles of tobacco, and San Juan de los Remedios , eighth village been founded by the Spanish conquerors in the Island (1515), they are traffic places forced in route to the keys of the north one and mainly the last one requires of all the attention and the visitor's available time. |
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The historical center of Remedios, declared in 1980 National Monument, is the only of the country in whose main square two churches exist: that of Nuestra Señora del Buen Viaje and the Parroquia Mayor, in which an enormous altar exists completely veneered in gold and a sculpture -you shows off that only in the world - that represents the Immaculate Conception in a pregnant stage.
But that, that truly has given fame to this singular town are, the traditional sprees whose origins go back to the first room of the XIX century and that from 1871 they divide the population in two decrees: San Salvador and the Carmen, represented by a rooster of it fights and a sparrow hawk, respectively, and that they face in genius, imagination, music and bustle from the night of December 24 until the morning of the following day.
From Caibarién, surrounded town of fishermen of deep waters in those that important lobster hatcheries exist, a railcar on the sea of more than 48 kilometers of extension it connects to mainland with the keys of the north, in two of those which: the Witches (that counts with a small aerodrome) and Santa María already exists magnificent lodging facilities.
The last one of these, baptized as the white rose of the Jardines del Rey(Gardens of the King), hardly has 13 kilometers of longitude, almost the entirety of which are constituted by excellent beaches of fine white sand, dilutes limpid, calm and transparent, and whose funds
-Where coralline formations and a great diversity of submarine species are plentiful - they invite to the practice of the diving and the submarine picture.
In the own environment of the north key parts of Villa Clara is possible to find interesting proposals for the lovers of the nature tourism; of the archaeology, in the caves Pelo de Oro or that of the Muñeco; or to plan trips to the near lighthouse Caiman Grande and the ship with honey San Pascual, an authentic relic of the naval industry.
Other attractiveness with which Villa Clara counts are the lake Hanabanilla, one of the biggest artificial reservoirs of the built country to the mountainous foot of the solid one of the Escambray and where it exists a flora reservation and fauna, and the spa of miner-medicinal and thermal waters of Elguea.
The one projected development of a solid outdoor and hotel infrastructure in the north key parts and the exploitation of other tourist attractiveness linked in the fundamental thing with the traditions and history of the region, they should take to Villa Clara to become the medium term in a destination preference vacational inside the bigger than the Antilles. The localization of a part of the Sierra del Escambray in the territory also makes to Villa Clara one of the destinations of the country with better conditions to attract to the nature tourism. |
