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28 ❯❯ Top 10 Cuba Highlights

Holguín

This sprawling industrial city, known as the “City of Squares,”
radiates around a compact colonial core arranged in an easily
navigated grid. Its many historic plazas include Parque Calixto
García, named for the general who liberated the city from the
Spanish in 1872. With its abundance of small museums, Holguín
has an especially active cultural life. Some tourists bypass the
town to visit the hilltop tourist complex of Mirador de Mayabe or
the beach resort of Guardalavaca, which offers various ecological
and archaeological attractions as well as spectacular scuba diving.
Plaza
Museo
2 5
Provincial
Calixto García
The most prominent The Neo-Classical
feature of this large, building that houses
tree-shaded plaza is this musem used to
the marble monument be a social club for the
of General Calixto García Spanish elite. Displays
(left). The busy square include historical
is also home to the city’s artifacts, most notably
main museums. Casa the Hacha de Holguín –
Natal de Calixto García, a pre-Columbian green
where the hero was born, peridot axe carved with
is a block east of here. human motifs.
Plaza San José
3
This cobbled square is the most intimate of
the city’s plazas and a pleasant place to sit on a
bench beneath shady trees. Surrounded by colonial
buildings, it is home to the Iglesia de San José,
Mirador
1 which is topped by a domed clocktower (below).
de Mayabe
Offering a stunning vista
over the Mayabe valley,
this lookout is the setting
for a fine hotel, a country-
style restaurant, and a
cliff-top pool with a bar
where its famous beer-
drinking donkey Pedro
hangs out.
8 18 miles
0 1 mile
CALLE AGRAMONTE 3 31 miles Plaza de Casa de
CALLE AGUILERA 9 4 6
la Trova
la Marqueta
7
CALLE FREXES market stand over this liveliest music venues
C. MARTĺNEZ
5 CALLE ARIAS CALLE MIRÓ 34 miles The ruins of a for mer This is one of Cuba’s
C. MACEO
C. MARTÍ
6 CALLE MANDULEY C. MORALES partially restored plaza, with two prog rams daily.
which features life-sized It is named for Faustino
2 bronze figures. It is lined Oramas “El Guayabero”
C. LUZ CABALLERO with shops inc luding the Osorio, who played the
C. M.
GÓMEZ
4 6 miles 1 Cuban Book Institute’s guitar here until his death
Linotype print shop. in 2007, at the age of 96.
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