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Later we detail the places most distinguished from the province of Clear Villa in Cuba.
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Santa Clara
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| Provincial museum Abel Santamaría | Park Leoncio Vidal | |
| In this museum we can see everything relative to the historical evolution of the city of Santa Clara and the Province of Clear Villa. Special sample attention in the facts happened during the Cuban revolution and the entry in the city of Ernesto Ché Guevara's troops. | It's placed in the heart of the city of Santa Clara being a place distinguished from the city. His name comes from the Colonel Leoncio Vidal who stood out in the fight against the Spanish colonialism. From here we can visit the such bordering places as the Theatre The Charity, the Central Hotel or the Museum of Decorative arts. | |
| Theatre The Charity | Monument to the Commander Che Guevara | |
| It was constructed in 1885 and it's one of few colonial theatres that remain. It was financed By Marta de los Ángeles Abreu of Estévez who put as condition to destine the benefits of the theatre to works of charity in memory of his already deceased parents, of there his name. | It's the monument that commemorates to the guerrilla who commanded the revolution against the Colonel Batista. Placed in the Plaza of the Ché, it's here from 1997 where they rest the remains of the guerrilla that are visited by thousands of tourists of all the places of the planet. | |
| Church of Carmen | Central university Marta Abreu of The Villas | |
| It's a modest hermitage that was constructed in the same place where in 1689 the Villa of Santa Clara was founded. Later it was remodelled though it is a question of a very nice church but without big architectural details. | It's the university of Santa Clara and the third biggest of the Island of Cuba. There are given numerous both humanistic and scientific specialities and Marta Abreu owes his name to the benefactora of the city. | |
| Isabela of Sagua | Armored train | |
| It's a village dedicated to the fishing and to port activities placed to the north of the province of Clear Villa. It was constructed in the middle of the 19th century by the arrival of the railroad to transport goods and great captivation preserves. Do not forget to pass for his restaurants to eat his fished ones and seafood. | It's a monument that commemorates the assault to the armored train of the colonel Batista during the insurrection of Ernesto Ché Guevara's Troops on December 29, 1958 that I turn out to be crucial in the revolutionary fight. | |
| Elguea's resort | Lake Hanabanilla | |
| One finds to the north of the province of Santa Clara, to 11 km from Corralillo and to 120 km from the capital, Santa Clara. His waters are considered since of the best of the world with a high concentration of you work out mineral and with medicinal properties. | It's placed near Santa Clara, in Escambray's saw and is known by the abundance of trouts. This one in an environment with beautiful and leafy landscapes and with hotels and services to receive tourists and to give him all the comforts that they need. | |
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San Juan de los Remedios
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| Church of San Juan Bautista | Museum of Music Alejandro García Caturla | |
| Placed in this nice village founded in 1515 by Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa it's one of the most former churches of the whole Cuba. It was constructed in 1692 on the remains of a former church that dates back of 1570. It combines the neoclassic style of his belfry with the interior of Baroque style. | It's placed in the historical center of the city of Remedies opposite to Jose Martí's park. There preserves the musical memory of San Juan of the Remedies and especially of his composer more out-standing Alejandro García Caturla who started composing to early age and murdering to the age of 34 years. | |
| Caibarién and Cayo Fragoso | ||
| It's a small fishing village with a nice port where we can pass an agreeable day. The restaurants offer an excellent fresh shellfish newly gathered from the sea and the possibility of visiting the nearby Cayo Fragoso with a few beaches paradisiac that sure you were charmed with. | ||
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Cayos of the Herradura in Villa Clara
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| Cayo Santa María | Cayo Ensenachos | |
| Placed opposite to the coast North of the province of Clear Villa to approximately 30 km from the coast, forms a part of the acquaintances as Keys of the Horse-shoe. It's a cayo little exploited from the tourist point of view though little by little it's taking more importance in view of his idyllic landscape that will attract many tourists. | Placed also in the north zone of the province in the so called cayos of the Herradura it's smaller than that of Santa Maria. As that of Santa Maria has a few paradisiac beaches few tourists' masificadas and is a protected given reserve the abundance of reptiles, amphibians and birds that in live. | |
| Cayo Las Brujas | ||
| Other one of the cayos inside the set of the Herradura that receives few tourists and an excellent practically virgin landscape preserves. His sea beds are very nourished of there that is a good site to practise skin-diving or underwater fishing. It has a small airport for light aircraft and a road. | ||
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