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La Comandancia
5
de la Plata
MAP M6 • Parque Nacional Pico
Turquino, 5 miles (8 km) from Villa
Santo Domingo • EcoTur, Bayamo; (23)
48 7006; departures from 9am • Adm
A permit and guide are required to
visit Castro’s former guerrilla head­
quarters. Visits can be booked at the
Ecotur office in Hotel Sierra Maestra.
Cuartel Moncada
6
Bullet holes riddle the walls
of this former military barracks that Complejo Histórico Abel Santamaría
sustained attacks by Castro’s rebels this park, where his rebel corps fired
on July 26, 1953, in the opening salvo on Moncada. A museum honoring
to topple Batista. The building is Santamaría is housed in the colonial
now a school and includes the former Civil Hospital Saturnino Lora
Museo Histórico 26 de Julio (see building, later used for the trial of
p31), full of gory mementos. Fidel Castro.
Monumento
Museo de la
7 9
Lucha Clandestina
del Che
A massive bronze figure MAP P6 • Calle Rabí 1, Santiago
of Che Guevara stands over de Cuba • (22) 62 4689 • Open
bas­reliefs of Che in combat. 9am–4:45pm Tue–Sun • Adm
Beneath and to the rear, the This museum in the former
Museo del Che is Cuba’s headquarters of Batista’s police
principal museum dedi cated force tells the story of the brave
to the Argentinian revolu­ M­26­7 revolutionaries in
tionary, whose remains Santiago who assaulted the
are interred in an adjacent building in November 1956.
mau soleum (see p97). Granjita Siboney
Complejo
8 0
MAP P6 • Carretera
Histórico Abel
a Siboney, km 13.5 • (22) 39
Santamaría Monumento 9168 • Open 9am–1pm Mon,
del Che
MAP P6 • Av. de los 9am–5pm Tue–Sun • Adm
Libertadores, Santiago de Cuba Castro launched the attack on
• (22) 62 4119 • Open 9am–5pm Moncada from this farmhouse
Mon–Thu & Sun, 1–5pm Fri • Adm (see p40), which is now a museum.
A Modernist bas­relief of revolu­ Batista’s forces then attacked it and
tionary Abel Santamaría overlooks dumped the rebel bodies here.
Varadero
Pinar CC Havana CC Colón CN A tlantic
del Río A1 Santa O c ean
A4 Jagüey
Nueva Grande CS Clara
Gerona Cienfuegos A1 Ciego
de Ávila
Trinidad CC Nuevitas
Puerto
Camagüey Las Padre
Tunas Holguín
Moa
C aribbean Santa Cruz CC
S ea del Sur Santiago
0 kilometers 200 de Cuba Guantánamo
0 miles 100 Pilón
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