The Greater one of the Antilles, the dream of the Caribbean.

2007-02-05T02:26:00.000-08:00

This province is one of the most promising tourist destinies of Cuba due to the construction of a stony road from the province to "Cayo Guillermo" and "Cayo Coco".

"Cayo Coco", the fourth biggest islet of Cuba, has about 370 square km of land and 22 km of beaches, with a wide vegetation. The origin of the name comes from the bird called White Ibis, commonly know as Coco bird, which provides personality to the region due to its brilliant colors. It is expected to build an important tourist center of about 22 thousand rooms.

"Cayo Coco" joins "Cayo Guillermo" in 18 km, 5 of which are beaches like “El Pilar”, named after the ship of the famous North American writer Ernest Hemingway.

There is also a great infrastructure for nautical activities, where the Coco-Guillermo and Jucaro Marines provide 16 moorings for ships, together with the necessary facilities to get water, oil, electric power, protection and programs to ensure life on board and diving practice. This last activity can be practiced in the diving centers Abalone, Action Sport and Coco Diving Center with an offer that includes day and night immersions in coral formations and caves and spectacular shark show in the first of this facilities. The Marlin Coco Cay Marina gives the chance of an integral offer with its yacht and catamaran trips, some of which have glass button to watch the sea soils. In addition, the visitor has the chance of getting into aqua bikes to enjoy the beaches and the sceneries.

Beyond the islet systems that are around the Province, Ciego de Avila counts on a strong potential in the sugar cane industry and on a rooted culture, part of which can be appreciated in the Moron Municipal Museum where there are more than 1600 aborigine archeological pieces that were found in 1947 near of what is now Moron City.

Ciego de Avila is a great place to rest and forget the noisy environment of the big cities.

2006-12-06T18:20:00.000-08:00

Iznaga Tower: Trinidad's Centuries-Old Sentinel

The Villa de la Santísima Trinidad (Holy Trinity), founded over 400 years ago, is a living example of centuries-old traditions that have survived the passage of time for the enjoyment of both national and foreign vacationers.
Trinidad, one of the first villages founded by the Spanish conquistadors during the colonization of the largest Antillean Island, features one of the most complete and best preserved architectural structures in the American continent.
That historical treasure includes the Valle de los Ingenios, or Sugar Mill Valley, and the Iznaga Tower, a silent witness of the development of the sugar industry in Trinidad.
The construction of the Iznaga Tower in 1816 marks the predominance of eclecticism in Cuban architecture. The 45-meters-tall, seven-floor construction is topped by a lookout from where the region's sugarcane plantations could be watched.
According to experts, the bell on top of the tower was aimed at announcing the beginning and the end of work by the slaves, and the prayers to the Holy Virgin in the morning, midday and afternoon.
It was also used to sound an alarm in cases of fires, slaves' escapes, or just as a unique lookout to enjoy the valley's beauty in its entire magnitude.

The origin of the Iznaga Tower is surrounded by legend involving the two Iznaga brothers, who owned vast areas of land and several sugar factories in the region.
One of the stories says that the tower was constructed as a result of a dispute between the two brothers, who were in love with the same woman, so they decided to build a structure whose size in meters would determine who the winner was

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2006-11-27T17:28:00.000-08:00

Tourism of nature

Hotel Zaza
Islazul’s Zaza Hotel, is a hunting and fishing lodge, but accepts all vacationers. The hotel has 128 air conditioned rooms with private baths, telephones, and cable TV. Most rooms enjoy views over the lake and there is a rooftop mirador. Facilities include a pleasant lobby bar, a modest restaurant, night club, swimming pool, game room and a store.Dirección: Finca San José del Palmar, Km. 5, Lago Zaza, Sancti Spiritus.

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San Jose del Lago
Just east of Yaguajay and to the north of Sancti Spiritus City, Islazul runs the San Jose del Lago Hotel. A spa resort with cabinets beneath palms that surround a lagoon with rowboat rental, plus three big swimming pools (one with thermal water). Its 30 simple thatch-roofed cabinets are air-conditioned and have hot water, cable TVs and private baths. Facilities include a modest restaurant, bars, video, game room and cabaret. Massages and herbal treatments are offered. It's a popular place of entertainment for Cubans on weekends.

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Topes de Collantes
A special microclimate, to 771 meters over the level of the sea, with they representative flora and fauna, wraps to the facilities in this mountain place, located to the northwest of Trinidad and from where the visitor enjoys a panoramic view of the Escambray´s heights, the most important mountainous group in the central region of Cuba.

It constitutes a protected natural landscape, specialized in tourism of health and nature. It has five facilities; among those that figures the biggest center to the tourism of health in the country.
Traveled by paths of ornamental and medicinal plants, enjoy an impressive jump of water, surrounded of cascades and natural pocetas, visits to the Garden of Varieties of the Coffee, stay in caves and the contact with orchids in the middle of the elevations, they are options that the tourist will always thank who enjoy this place, distinguished by the natural fertility and the tranquility of the environment.

2006-11-20T04:05:00.000-08:00

Beach Tourism on Sancti Spiritus

Hotel Brisas Trinidad del Mar

Trinidad del Mar Hotel
Just driving 15 km south of Trinidad, a living museum city, you will find four-star Brisas Trinidad del Mar Hotel.
On the white sands of the Ancon beach, and surrounded by the astonishingly green Escambray Mountain Range, the colorful hotel in colonial architecture style highlights as the main resort over the Ancon Peninsula.
The facility counts on 241 air conditioned rooms (two for disable people). All rooms have view over the Ancon peninsula, cable TVs, telephone, radio and safety deposit box. Medical services and Massages are also offered. Facilities include a Drug store, shop, Laundry, currency exchange, Fax and E-mail services, day and night animation with live shows, a swimming pool, a Jacuzzi and sea sports. There are also car, moped and bike rentals available.

Hotel Ancón
Gran Caribe’s Ancon Hotel located at the far southern end of the Ancon beach, the hotel has 279 air conditioned rooms, private baths, telephones and radios. Facilities include a game room, cabaret, a huge swimming pool, a tourist bureau, a Photo Service shop, an atmospheric restaurant, seven bars and a car rental. Excursions and on-site scuba diving are offered.

Hotel Horizontes Costasur
The Costa Sur Hotel, at Punta de Maria Aguilar, has its own little white sand beachwith volleyball. The waters are shallow, thus rocky. The modest hotel counts on 131 air conditioned rooms and chalets all have private baths, radios and telephones. Facilities include a game room and volleyball, tennis courts, a pool and even a miniature rifle range. The hotel features scuba diving and excursions, horse rental and a wide range of

2006-11-14T19:31:00.000-08:00

In this province ends the Camagüey prairie and starts some mountainous bulks, among them Encambray, where is located the peculiar city of Trinidad. Famous by its streets paved with dyed colours stones (ochre, blue, green or pink) that dates from the 18th century, has been declared by the UNESCO "Patrimony of the Humanity", mainly by its historical centre, a set of stone paved streets that reunite in the Plaza Mayor, where it raises the parochial church of the Santísima Trinidad, where it’s the 17th to 20th centuries images collection, the San Francisco convent and the Brunet palace, constructed in the 18th century. This palace, along with the Cantero palace is a faithful testimony of the architectonic splendour of the city.

Other interesting places are the former inns of the 18th century; the jigüe tree that grows in the Plaza Real; the old San Francisco de Asís convent, that lodges a peculiar Museum of the War against Bandits and the Privateer House, constructed to lodge the captain of corsairs Carlos Merlin.

The province limits to the north with the Buena Vista bay, to the east with the Ciego de Avila province and to the west with the Villa Clara and Cienfuegos provinces. The Villa Clara province, in whose capital are the rests of the mythical Che Guevara, counts on the attractiveness of its virgin and solitary beaches like Coralillo, Panchita, Carahatas and Carabarién.

2006-11-08T21:08:00.000-08:00

UNITED NATIONS, November 7
The UN General Assembly will vote today on the resolution presented by Cuba against the United States blockade; the overwhelming majority of nations are expected to support the resolution, as has occurred 14 years in a row.

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque arrived in New York to present to the United Nations General Assembly the resolution called "Necessity to put an end to the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba," reported Prensa Latina.

Just hours before the resolution comes to vote, last minute manoeuvres are taking place, with Australia stepping up as the latest pawn as Washington scrambles to find nations to vote against the Cuban resolution.

El mundo no ha dejado de oponerse cada vez más al bloqueo genocida de Estados Unidos contra Cuba
Años	A FAVOR	EN CONTRA	Ausencia	ABSTENCIÓN
1992	59	3	46	71
1993	88	4	35	57
1994	101	2	33	48
1995	117	3	27	38
1996	137	3	20	25
1997	143	3	22	17
1998	157	2	14	12
1999	155	2	23	8
2000	167	3	15	4
2001	167	3	16	3
2002	173	3	11	4
2003	179	3	7	2
2004	179	4	7	7
2005	182	4	4	1

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2006-11-05T22:21:00.001-08:00

Topes de Collantes

Topes de Collantes, over 800 meters of the level of the sea is a place to stop to watch the existence of a prodigal nature that make that healthy and purified atmosphere of the levels of contamination of the modern life, the stress and the anxiety.

It is located 22 kilometers of the Trinidad city, at 77 km of Santa Clara, at 80 of Cienfuegos and 350 kilometers of Havana.

The climatic conditions are exceptional with parameters of environmental well-being above 60 percent, the half temperature of the air oscillates between 16 and 25 grades Celcius, the relative humidity is of 85 percent and the maximum speed of the wind of 11,6 km/h.

Those conditions determine the ecological characteristics of the region distinguished by the beauty of the flora and the fauna, with a high unique level of endemism, this attributes gave place to the creation of the Great Natural Parks Topes de Collantes.

Grottos holed in their almost vertical flaws, fence open with drainages undergrounds, narrow rivers of quick flow, beautiful cascades and jumps like the Caburní, National Monument, they ennoble the attractiveness of this worthy area of not omitting in their encounter with the nature of the island of the hospitality.

More than 15 species of pines, 12 of eucalyptuses and more than 100 ornamental plants they guarantee that the whole year there are flowers in Topes de Collantes. Variety of ferns, medicinal plants, wild orchids and butterflies supplement the beautiful environment.

Locust trees, cedar, mahogany, magnolia and teak, among other, they distinguish the place, fundamentally characterized by the prevalence of spineless, without the presence of some species dangerous for the man.

The complicated relief of the Escambray allows the existence of heights of different ranges, and small and fertile you intermountain valleys.

In this topography of varied vegetable mosaic is favored the named “Ecological Border” that increases the presence of birds like the parrot, the tocororo (national bird of Cuba), the Negrito, the sparrow hawk, the carpenter and the sijú.

They are also seven endemic species of amphibians, among those that stands out the frog “Co-lin”, called this way by the sound that they emits, it is not absent here the synergetic fauna, mainly represented by the deer white line, the hoggish jíbaro and the quail. Equally they inhabit jutías, mollusks, insects, spiders and bats. Around the area exist dogs and cats introduced by the man.

In the hillsides of the mountains the breeding of bovine, swinish and poultry livestock is fomented as source of foods for those that here live and her visitors.

2006-11-05T22:21:00.000-08:00

Topes de Collantes

2006-10-31T12:50:00.000-08:00

Located at the center of the island, the province of Sancti Spíritus has the privilege of being the only territory of the Cuban archipelago where two of the first seven villas were founded at the beginning of the XVI century by the Spanish discoverer, Diego Velázquez: Espíritu Santo and Santísima Trinidad.

Both of them were born in 1514, and one of the 14 provinces of the political and administrative division of the Republic of Cuba was named after Espíritu Santo. It is a region with a clayish and fertile soil, whose 15% is covered by one of the most important mountainous regions of the country, Sierra del Escambray which, among other attributes, treasures peaceful Caribbean beaches all along the coasts of the Península of Ancón.

The capital city, Sancti Spíritus, was invariably settled on the margins of a river, and it preserves in its historic center buildings that show a divers variety of styles which have notably enriched for centuries the unruly distribution of its urban area. Among the most outstanding constructions we can find the Iglesia Parroquial Mayor, Teatro Principal and the bridge over Yayabo River itself.

Nevertheless, Trinidad –fairly considered a museum city– is one of the cities in the Amercian Continent with the most complete and better preserved colonial architecture areas, considered by UNESCO in 1988 and declared World Heritage.

A cross under the shadow of a Jigüe tree reminds us of the place where Fray Juan de Tesin presumably said the first mass of the future villa, during the Christmas of 1513. Not far from there, La Plaza Mayor and La Iglesia Mayor de la Santísima Trinidad were built afterwards. The second one treasures among its most valuable pieces the famous Cristo de Vera Cruz and an altar made of marble, unique of its kind in the island, which was dedicated to the cult to La Virgen de la Misericordia (the Virgin of Mercy).

This city invites visitors to walk on its quiet stone streets and several squares; discover at every step stories jealously preserved in half a dozen museums or roomy and cool mansions from the centuries XVIII and XIX –full of balustrades, railings and grating admirably made of metal; and roofs covered with Cuban made tiles–, where you will be able to breath the same attractive atmosphere that centuries ago brought important visitors to this very place, like for example the wise man Alejandro de Humboldt.

The vast and near Valley of San Luis, also known as Valley of the Mills, shows the splendor that the sugar industry gave to this villa at the end of the XVII century. This Valley, declared World Heritage by UNESCO, is also an important ecological reserve.

It is said that at the time of its highest splendor, this area was the main producer of sugar in the country. There were here dozens of mills that could be seen from the top of the Tower of Manaca-Iznaga, 45 meters high and whose bell used to announce the start and end of the work sessions in the plantations of this sweet gramineous. 75 ruins of mills, summer houses, living quarters of slaves and other facilities related to the production of this highly demanded produce have been preserved until today.

There are less than a dozen kilometers between the historic center of Trinidad and the beaches of the Península of Ancón, washed by the waters of the Caribbean Sea and considered among the best ones in the south coast of the island. Its sea bottoms, irregular and with notable concentrations of black coral, can be explored in more than twenty diving sites; some of them near Cayo Blanco, an isle about 45 minutes away by boat from the Port of Casilda.

Also close to this colonial city, the mountainous region of Escambray invites daring visitors to intense days of activities in the National Park of Topes de Collantes, located 800 meters above sea level and where Salto del Caburní (National Monument) stands out among numerous attractions. On the other, this place also provides visitors with the opportunity of improving their quality of life in an ideal environment that also has a facility for health and pleasure known as Kurhotel.

Meanwhile, in the central region of the province you will be able to see the largest artificial lake of Cuba, the Zaza dam. Its impounding capacity surpasses the one thousand million cubic meters of this valuable liquid, which constitutes a perfect place for sport fishing, especially for trout, whose sizes rate them among the best ones at the international level.

To the north, Caguanes National Park, recently declared by UNESCO a reserve of the Biosphere, treasures an important group of caves with plenty of interesting archeological sites and under water caves; natural habitat of a variety of fresh water sponges that can only be seen in this place.

2006-10-31T12:41:00.000-08:00

2006-10-19T11:46:00.000-07:00

Villa Clara: The Force of Nature

Cuba's central province of Villa Clara boasts a wide range of options for leisure, which can meet the needs of the most demanding vacationers among the thousands of travelers visiting the region every year.
Excellent beaches, cultural traditions and history go hand in hand with the region's well-preserved environment, where vacationers can enjoy the force of nature in that Cuban territory.
The environment's unique elements are, in that regard, a one-of-a-kind complement to the many tourist programs travelers can enjoy in Villa Clara.
South of the city of Santa Clara, the provincial capital, lies the Cubanacán Protected Area, a true natural paradise and a safe haven for amphibious, reptiles, mammals and birds, among which ten species were included in the list of endemic animals.
The Escambray Mountain Range, characterized by its steep slopes, winding roads and vast forests, covers a large area of Villa Clara, serving as a safe haven for the last flocks of parrots living in the province.
Bird watchers can observe Cuba's national bird, the Cuban trogon or "tocororo" (Priotelus temnurus), woodpeckers and hawks, as well as mammals such as deer and hutias, which live near the Hanabanilla, Cuba's only intra-mountainous lake.
The Hanabanilla Hotel stands by the lake, a major destination for nature lovers, since it offers them the possibility of fishing the largest trout in Cuba.
Guests can also enjoy trekking, walks to Atalaya to watch the region's flora and fauna, visits to rural homes, and tours of coffee plantations, forests and waterfalls.
As part of the rational use of natural resources, seven municipalities in the province contribute to the appropriate exploitation of coastal areas, especially the Sabana-Camagüey project.
Villa Clara's main economic activities are fishing, tourism and hydraulic resources, in addition to agricultural and industrial productions, including the sugar, food, basic and light industries.
The region zealously defends its wealth, since in order to develop ecological tourism, the most important element is the landscape, its beauty and its natural values, the way they are offered and the rational use of natural resources to guarantee their preservation.
Tourist development in numerous keys has a transcendental importance due to its high esthetic and recreational values, since they boast beautiful beaches and exuberant flora and fauna, thus ratifying the huge natural potential of the central region of the Cuban archipelago.

2006-10-17T12:56:00.000-07:00

Cayo Santa María

A system of channels becomes a true aquatic labyrinth between the keys, while offering a huge potential for observation programs and nautical activities.
Another singularity of the region is the San Pascual boat, which ran aground near Cayo Francés almost 70 years ago, and has become a naval rarity, since it was made of reinforced concrete in San Francisco, California, in 1920.
Also known by the local people as El Pontón, many consider the ship another islet. It offers vacationers the amenities of its 10 cabins and an enviable location to enjoy the region's many attractions.
For those visiting the area, Ensenachos boasts one of the best beaches, although its small extension limits the key's development program to a maximum of 600 rooms to prevent damaging the environment.
The stronghold in the development of the local leisure industry is Cayo Santa María, where there is a hotel, and there exists an investment project to build a maximum of 5,000 rooms, in addition to an air terminal and a runway on Cayo Las Brujas to receive small- and medium-size planes.
Nature itself has created the conditions for leisure, including a coral reef that attenuates the force of winds and waves, thus creating a unique environment to welcome thousands of vacationers who visit the region every year.
Cayo Santa María, which is 13 kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide, boasts 11 kilometers of excellent beaches and is linked to the big island by a causeway on the sea.
The islet, which was designated a "Biosphere Reserve" by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is inhabited by a wide range of animals, including ten endemic species.
Cayo Santa María is also home to large colonies of flamingos, seagulls and anhingas, as well as iguanas, mollusks and the so-called shrike bird, while its sea bottoms are inhabited by algae. The key is also a safe haven for amphibian mollusks, reptiles, mammals and birds.
Other birds living on the key are the tocororo (Cuban trogon), which is Cuba's national bird, as well as woodpeckers and hawks. Among the mammals are deer and various species of hutias, including the rat hutia.
Animal diversity is complemented by the region's exuberant flora, made up of 248 species, including 91 medicinal, 72 timber, 41 resin-producing and 40 ornamental species. Mangroves, as well as palms, fruit trees and coconuts cover the islet.
The key holds remnants of pre-Columbian cultures in caverns near the beaches, which boast beautiful underwater seascapes.

2006-10-14T21:22:00.000-07:00

Key The Witches

The Cuban county of Villa Clara, located in the central portion of the bigger than The Antilles, also participates in the dynamic development that shows the industry of the leisure, supported in the attractiveness of an unique nature and history.

The strategy of expansion of the tourism even goes of the call big island, when directing the look toward the territories that are integrated in the North Cayería, with several kilometres of excellent beaches and a practically virgin environment.

A road over the sea - called predaplen - of 48 kilometres of extension it serves as connection between the biggest isle in the Cuban archipelago and the keys Santa María, The Witches, Ensenados, Cobos, Majá, Craggy, Francés, The Picúas and Español de Adentro, among others.

Besides the tourist potential, exist conditions to serve from refuge to the flora and fauna, because in that exist the well-known species exclusively as jutía rata, besides other endemic varieties as lizards, molluscs and the bird muleteer.

The animal diversity is supplemented with a flora that includes 248 species, of which 91 are medicinal, 41 melliferous and 40 ornamental, everything it accompanied by beautiful subaquatics landscapes.

A system of channels becomes a true aquatic labyrinth among the keys, at the same time that offers an enormous potential for the programs of view tourism and the nautical activity.

Others of the singularities of the region are in the ship San Pascual, beached in the proximities of Key Francés for almost 70 years and transformed into a naval rarity when being made of armed concrete and thrown away to the water in 1920 in San Francisco's navy, California.

Also known by the habitants as The Pontón, many consider it as an island but, although at the present time offer to the vacationers the facilities of their 10 cabins and an enviable position to appreciate the attractiveness of the region.

For who visit the area, Ensenachos has the best beaches, although its small extension limits the development program to some 600 rooms like maximum, to avoid this way irreparable affectations to the environment.

The tourist development of some of its numerous keys has a momentous importance for its high aesthetic and recreational value, when having beautiful beaches, exuberant flora and Caribbean fauna, all that which ratifies the enormous potential of the nature in the central portion of the Cuban archipelago.

Also, to the north of the municipalities of Sagua la Grande and Caibarién the Refuge of Fauna of the North Cayería is located.

With some 80 thousand hectares of extension, it constitutes a point of localization of an extensive colony of flamingos, together to endemic species of the place like lizards and molluscs, besides almost 250 varieties of the flora, of them 40 of ornamental character.

In the keys of the refuge they are located vestiges of before Columbus cultures also in near caverns to the beaches, accompanied by beautiful subaquatics landscapes, been offers linked to the modality of the ecotourism.

The legends are also present in the area, like it is the case of The Witches whose name this linked to the histories of ghosts, noises and appearances that circulated among the residents, although other narrations associate them with the loving encounters between a fisherman and a youth of the town.

In fact, in that island it highlights the equal village it names, located in Punta Periquillo next to a wide fringe of sand of almost two kilometres of beach and built on piles in the high rocks of a cliff.

Very close an airport is located with facilities to welcome airplanes of small and medium behaviour, that which allows the access from the vacationers to the place.

2006-10-12T13:30:00.000-07:00

During the last years, the central Cuban county has received a circuit tourism for the most part of the world, attracted by the narrow linking of its capital city with the legendary major Ernesto Ché Guevara who in 1958 liberated decisive combats in the ended stage for de definitive national freedom.

Santa Clara is a neat and calm city, that city has been founded in 1689 and that she has in the Memorial Museum dedicated to the Ché Guevara figure and his fallen partners in combat in Bolivia, the theater The Charity (1885) and the park Leoncio Vidal, places that deserve to be known. It counts, also, with the advantage that their own geographical position grants him, placing it to 267 kilometers of Havana’s City, 74 of Cienfuegos, 207 of Shipyard and 88 of Trinidad.

Camajuaní, eminently agricultural municipality in which are plentiful the good spindles of tobacco, and San Juan de los Remedios, eighth village ounded by the Spanish conquerors in the Island (1515), they are places of obliged traffic in route to the keys of the north and mainly the last one requires of the whole attention and the visitor's available time.

The historical center of Remedios, declared in 1980 National Monument, is the only one in whose main square exist two churches: they are Nuestra Señora del Buen Viaje and the Biggest Parish, in which exist an enormous altar completely veneered in gold and a sculpture that represents the Immaculate pregnant Concepción.

Truly, the fame that Villa Clara has wonder is justly by the traditional sprees, whose origins go back to the first half 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 they face in genius, imagination, music and bustle from the night of December 24 until the morning of the following day.

From Caibarién, town of fishermen surrounded of deep waters, in those exist important lobster hatcheries, a railcar over 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 Brujas (that counts with a small aerodrome) and Santa María already exists lodging facilities.

The last one of these, baptized as the white rose of the King's Gardens, 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 cayería of Villa Clara is possible to find interesting proposals for the lovers of the nature tourism; of the archaeology, in the caves Hair of Gold or the Puppet; or to plan trips to the near lighthouse Big Cayman and the honey ship San Pascual, an authentic relic of the naval industry that today works as floating hotel.

Other attractiveness with which Villa Clara counts are the lake Hanabanilla, one of the built bigger domestic artificial reservoirs to the mountainous foot of the solid one of the Escambray and where exists a flora and fauna reservation, and the spa of miner-medicinal and thermal waters of Elguea.