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surrounded by some attractive VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
buildings: the Liceo Artístico y
Literario (1860); the Casino Practical Information
Español, built in the early 1900s; Matanzas. Road Map B2. *
the Palacio del Gobierno; the 155,000. n Havanatur, Calle
Catedral de San Carlos, dating Jovellanos, e/n Medio y Río, (45)
from the 17th century but mostly 253 856.
rebuilt in the 19th century; and, Transport
Bookbinding at the Ediciones Vigía next to the derelict Hotel El k Carretera a Regaliot km 5.5,
publishing house Louvre, the Museo Farmacéutico (45) 247 015. £ Carretera de
de Matanzas. Cidra y 181, (45) 292 409. @
E Ediciones Vigía Calzada de Estévez, (45) 291 473.
Calle Magdalena 1, Plaza de la Vigía. E Museo Farmacéutico
Tel (45) 244 845, (45) 260 917. Open de Matanzas
8:30am–4pm Mon–Fri. Closed 1 Jan, Calle Milanés 4951, e/ Santa Teresa y curative powers of Dr Triolet’s
1 May, 26 Jul, 10 Oct, 25 Dec. = Ayuntamiento. Tel (45) 243 179. remedies. The façade of the
This publishing house’s Open 10am–5pm Mon–Sat, pharmacy faces the square.
beautifully-crafted products 10am–4pm Sun. & 8 The shop also serves as a
are entirely hand-made – This fine example of a 19th- bureau of scientific information,
dupli cated, painted and bound century pharmacy, overlooking with more than a million
– on special untreated or Parque de la Libertad, was original formulae and rare books
recycled paper. Visitors can buy founded on 1 January 1882 by on botany, medicine, chemistry
books (on poetry, theatre and Ernesto Triolet and Juan Fermín and pharmaceuticals, in several
history) by Cuban and foreign de Figueroa and turned into a foreign languages.
authors, as well as periodicals. museum in 1964.
On the wooden shelves stand
Parque de la Libertad the original French porce lain
Calle Milanés, an important vases decorated by hand,
commercial street, leads to the others imported from the US,
city’s other large square, Parque and an incredible quantity of
de la Libertad, where military small bottles with herbs, syrups
parades were held in the 1800s. and elixirs. The museum also
The square was built on the site has a collection of three million
of the Indian village of Yacayo. old labels, mortars and stills,
In the middle of the plaza is an and adver tising posters The wooden shelves at the Museo
impressive statue of José Martí, boasting the miraculous Farmacéutico de Matanzas

Matanzas
Town Centre Valle de
Yumuri (SAN ALEJANDRO) 55
Iglesia de
1 Plaza de la Vigía San Pedro Apóstol
2 Museo Provincial Hershey 57
Station
3 Teatro Sauto ( V E R A ) 2 6 6
4 Ediciones Vigía (SAN JOSÉ) 65
5 Catedral de San Carlos (SANTA ISABEL) 67 (SAN BLÁS) 67
6 Museo Farmacéutico (SALAMANCA) 71 Río Yumurí (SAN ANTONIO) 71 (AROSTEGUI) 69
de Matanzas 288 2 7 0
7 Parque de la Libertad (VELARDE) 73 (ANIMAS) 73 V Í A B L A N C A
8 Puente Concordia ZARAGOZA SANTA TERASITA 290 (DAOIZ) 75 (AYUNTAMIENTO) 282 (JOVELLANOS) 280 278 Puente
Teatro 276 Concordia
Velasco (MACEO) 77
Biblioteca Gener
y del Monte ( M A G D A L E N A ) 2 72
Parque de la C O N T R E R A S ( B O N I FA C I O B Y R N E )
Libertad Museo
( M I L A N É S ) 8 3 Palacio Provincial
0 metres 300 de Justicia
(MEDIO) 85 Museo Teatro Sauto
0 yards 300 Farmacéutico Catedral de PLAZA DE
San Carlos
de Matanzas
LA VIGÍA
CALLE 91 (RÍO)
Ediciones Puente
Vigía Calixto Gracía
N A R VA E Z 9 7 Río San Juan Bus Station 101
C O M E R C Í O 9 9 750 m (800 yards) VARADERO
Train Station
1.5 km (1 mile)
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