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Revolutionary Sites

Central Australia
Castillo El Morrillo
1 6
MAP F2 • Canímar
This site preserves the build­
• Open 9am–4pm Tue–Sun ing that was Castro’s headquarters
This fortress houses the mausoleum during the Bay of Pigs (see p19).
of two martyred revolutionary
Complejo Escultórico
lead ers: Antonio Guiteras Holmes 7
and Carlos Aponte Hernández. Ernesto Che Guevara
MAP H3 • Plaza de la Revolución,
Museo de la
2 Santa Clara • (42) 20 5878 • Open
Batalla de Ideas
9am–4pm Tue–Sun
MAP F2 • Av. 6 between 11 & 12, A statue of Che looms over this site,
Cárdenas: (45) 52 7599 • Open 9am– which features the mausoleum
5pm Tue–Sat, 9am–1pm Sun • Adm where his body is interred (see p39).
A museum recounts the custody
Museo Naval
battle over Elián González, a Cuban 8
boy rescued from sea off Miami. MAP G3 • Calle 21 & Av. 62,
Cienfuegos • (43) 51 9143 • Open
Museo Casa Natal de
3 10am–6pm Tue–Sat, 9am–1pm Sun
José Antonio Echeverría
• Adm
MAP F2 • Genes between Calzada & The headquarters of an anti­Batista
Coronel Verdugo, Cárdenas • (45) 52 revolt on September 5, 1957, this is
4145 • Open 9am–6pm Tue–Sat, now a naval museum.
9am–1pm Sun • Adm
Museo Provincial
This museum was once the home of 9
José Antonio Echeverría (see p41). Abel Santamaría
MAP H3 • Calle Esquerra • (42) 20
Museo Girón
4 3041 • Open 8:30am–4:30pm Mon–
Fri, 9am–1pm Sat • Adm
The Cuban version of the Bay
of Pigs invasion is recounted at this A museum dedicated to the
museum (see p19). revolutionary movement in Santa
Clara is housed in this former
Tren Blindado
5 military barracks.
MAP H3 • Av. Independencia
Playa Larga
btwn Línea & Puente de la Cruz, 0
Santa Clara • (42) 20 2758 • Open MAP F3
9am–5pm Mon–Sat • Adm On April 17, 1961, CIA­sponsored
This monument re­creates the Cuban exiles landed on this beach
derail ing of an armored train (see p37).
by Che’s guerrillas using the
original carriages. Tren Blindado

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