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Las Tunas

Las Tunas is a province that at the present time has little developed the tourist sector but this doesn't mean that it lacks attractiveness. Their main points of interest are:

  • Covarrubias Beach, at north-east of Puerto Padre's town. It has lodging.
  • Several small but beautiful beaches of very good quality in creeks in the north coast.
  • Puerto Padre, an attractiveness town that has a singular pier and it is full with history, lodging exists in private houses. In the surroundings you can visit La Llanita and La Herradura beaches and exist an old Spanish fort called Fuerte La Loma that is National Monument.
  • City Las Tunas, a bucolic and provincial city with some interesting museums.
  • Cerro Caisimú, 20 km at north of city, it's good for hunting.

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Holguin

It is a rich province in mining resources and an important tourist destination in the country with many beautiful beaches on the Atlantic coast. It has also a rich history. Their main attractiveness are:

  • Guardalavaca beach, one of the better beaches in Cuba. Has a good hotel infrastructure.
  • Cayo Saetía, has good beaches and hotels.
  • El Parque Natural Bahía de Naranjo (Natural Park Saetia Key) and Chorro de Maita.
  • Baray Bay, where Admiral Cristofolo Colombo disembarked in Cuba for first time. In their proximities are Blanca and Pesquero Viejo beaches, with hotel lodging.
  • Beautiful towns like as Gibara y Banes, that should be visited if you travel across the Cuban Orient
  • Holguin city, also well-known as the City of the Parks with a well conserved architecture and where exist many interesting colonial buildings
  • Pinares de Mayarí, in the National Park La Mesura, a mountainous area and with a climate and very pleasant natural environment.

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Granma

Province of magnificent nature and rich history plagued of events of fights for the independence and more recently of fights between Fidel Castro's guerilla fighters and the troops of Fulgencio Batista's government. Their main attractiveness are:

  • City of Bayamo, has a rich history and a lot of museums and monuments, it should see the beautiful historical center where an atmosphere of the past is breathed, there is the Church of San Salvador. Are proverbial the horse cars of Bayamo and this is a good way to make a walk for the city: in car thrown by horses, there are sold flavorful oysters in small business on the street.
  • Manzanillo, an interesting city located over Gulf of Guanacayabo, and where the Arab influence is noticed in some parks and buildings, something strange in Cuba. There are some good beaches in their surroundings.
  • Sierra Maestra, major mountain range in the country and scenario of the fights against Fulgencio Cambric's government at the end of the fifties. There is located the Disembark of Granma National Park
  • Marea del Portillo beach, one of better over the south coast of province of Granma, has hotel lodging.

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Santiago de Cuba

It is characterized by a mountainous relief conditioned by the fact that the Sierra Maestra (Maestra Range) extends for great part of their territory. Main tourist attractiveness concentrate basically on the south area and they are:

  • City of Santiago de Cuba, second more important on the country, also the most Caribbean of all the Cuban cities, it is marked in their architecture, in their history and in their mixture of races for a constant encounter of cultures and migratory entrance of numerous current of other islands of Caribbean, this is without doubts a place that should be visited if you want to know Cuba. The hospitality of their inhabitants are proverbial.
  • Turquino National Park that besides the impressive mountain range includes the whole south coast to the west of the city of Santiago de Cuba, a simply spectacular coast where are small but very beautiful beaches and numerous interesting diving points exist, among them the remains of several ships from Admiral Cervera's fleet sunken during the battle with American fleet that put end to colonial presence of Spain in America. Good hotel infrastructura exists in the area
  • Baconao Park, whole south coast east from Santiago de Cuba, beautiful landscapes and good beaches with hotel lodging.
  • Ermita de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre, located in El Cobre, a small town close 15 km from Santiago de Cuba city.

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Guantanamo

Guantanamo is the most oriental of Cuban provincesand also a territory full with contrasts in their spectacular natural scenarios, arid coasts almost are given of the hand with mountainous areas where rainfalls are very high. Guntanamo is that: a rural and beautiful nature and their main tourist attractiveness are related strongly with their nature, with their mountains:

  • Baracoa, called Prime City of Cuba, was first one founded by Diego Velazquez on 1512. The village has an unique charm, an own air, maybe partly because the relative isolation in that the city lived until highway La Farola was built on the 70' and also because the magic natural environment that surrounds it. You should not leave oriental provinces without visit Baracoa, it would be an unforgivable sin. City has access for a highway that is an unique scenic road in Cuba, 2 trips per day, bus of Via Azul company, and also there is an airport. Lodging in hotels and in dozens of rooms in private houses.
  • Alexander Humboldt National Park, located in Moa-Sagua-Baracoa Range and where are founded the mightiest rivers and the forests better conserved of the country.
  • Punta de Maisí, oriental end of Cuba and one of more desert landscape that can be found in the island
  • City of Guantanamo, capital of province is a regional commercial and economic center, don't possess big tourist attractiveness but it is an interesting point to visit for the tranquility of the city, their churches and several interesting constructions, as well as for the possibility of to take a bathroom in a near river or to make a trip to the Air-naval Base of the United States (they are organized in Guantanamo Hotel).

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