Santiago de Cuba City
Santiago de Cuba City, the second more important city and located in the east of the island of Cuba, it was the last of the first seven villages, founded in 1515 for the Spanish conqueror Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar.
Santiago de Cuba City is the history city. There are not corner or stone of her that it has not felt the step of a hero or attended battles for the future. In her it were born much of the generals of the independence wars of the XIX century, among them Antonio Maceo; in Santa Ifigenia cemetery rest the José MartÃ's remains, Cuban National Hero; in their streets, July 26 1953, Fidel Castro heading a group of young as him, attacked the Cuartel Moncada and he wrote the first page of the fight stage that it would take him to the victory of 1959.
Without the chapters contributed by Santiago de Cuba, it would be hard to tell the history of Cuba; without the workers' movement against any oppressive class, the insurrectionary fight of an entire town, the high quota of young lives that offered up on the way for one’s freedom. For that reason Santiago de Cuba it’s the single Cuban city that has the Title of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Order Antonio Maceo, the highest badges.
In Santiago de Cuba City black roots have their music and their carnivals, famous in Cuba and the world, and also many of their popular religions. From Catalans their tradition comes them their coral tradition, and from Spain, the architecture with Moorish accent, smoothly spiced foods, and the language that offer unique lexical variants and that it is intoned with the notorious oriental "cantaÃto" from which are proud the santiagueros, while some exchange "L" for "R" or "S" it’s omits amid the words.
Santiago de Cuba is a tourist destination in which it’s combine multiple and attractiveness values which allow the visitor to enter in contact with its people's idiosyncrasy, the culture and history of the place and, at the same time, to enjoy its well conserved nature and exotic beaches.
Santiago de Cuba City possesses a hotels’ extensive range. It is stand out the hotels Casagranda, Versailles and Meliá Santiago, besides many other hotels and villages located in the surroundings of the city in places of unquestionable natural beauty as the Baconao Park and La Gran Piedra.
Nobody that has walked the streets of Santiago de Cuba and felt their folklore can be subtracted that Santiago de Cuba is a sounding city. Walk all that you can, but don't stop to visit the Céspedes Park, the Plaza de Marte, the street in steps form named Pedro Pico, the Enramadas street, the Antonio Maceo Revolution Square, the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, the Bacardà Museum (the oldest in Cuba) and the Cuartel Moncada. Distant 965 kilometers of the capital, Santiago de Cuba offers a life designed to the measure of their intense Sun and lesson franks of good to make.
Their people, music and history make of Santiago de Cuba City an unique destination in the Caribbean area. In Santiago de Cuba City, the mixture of races and cultures have given as result that Santiago de Cuba is known as "the most Caribbean of the Cuban cities" and "the capital of the Caribbean area."