Like Blind on Avila, the province of Camagüey, the one of more extensive of the Island, live facing agriculture and the cattle ranch. Its capital, Camagüey, were founded on 1514 with the name of Santa Maria of the Port of the Prince, third more is populated with the country. Its present location data of January of 1528. In the old zone of the city they are most of the average dozen of churches (Our Lady of the Carmen, Our Lady of the Favor, Santa Ana, Parochial Greater, Our Lady of the Solitude and Parish of the Charity), the parks (Agramonte), the seat San Juan de God and the houses of colonial style with gangways and grates that remember much to those of some gaditanas cities. There first scale in 1933 did his the airplane piloted by the Sevillians Barberán and Collar in the first transatlantic flight.

Is one of the prettiest cities of the country, center of culture and university education, to which students of bordering provinces go. They say that he is where the purest Spanish is spoken, with many Castilian archaisms. Between the centers of cultural scope they are the Museum Ignacio Agramonte (second painting collection of the country), the native house of Nicholas Guillén (national poet), the Main Theater (host of the Ballet and Symphony orchestra, second in the "ranking" nacional).A the city is known him by its enormous tinajones of mud, in which the water was stored. If you happen that way between the 24 and the 29 of June you do not lose its carnivals of "camagüeyano San Juan", with great animation and musical amenización in its streets and seats. When you are of stroll by downtown, you can take a break in rejuvenated "the Great Hotel" (pleasant bar and swimming pool).

The province enjoys a total of 120 kilometers of beaches, almost the 25 percent of all the country, which turns it the potential center of more important tourism of Cuba. In Santa Lucia, with its 20 kilometers of beaches, many of them virgin and protected by a chorale barrier, you will be able to learn and to practice the diving and the submarinismo. You can alojarte in the four hotels of 3 and 4 stars, with complete services to the tourism (sports, excursions, doctors and fangoterapia). The best beaches of the zone are in the Mouth, next to the channel from access to the bay of Nuevitas, separately and little visited by the swimmers. Sumergiéndote in its waters you will see an incredible coralline variety (50 species), more than 200 of sponges and 500 of tropical fish, as well as some thirty Spanish galleons and some sunk ships of II the World war.

Following towards the west they are the keys Sabinal (united to the Island by pedraplén or peak), Roman and Cross, with 40 kilometers of beaches of finísimas sands, ideals for the diving and the submarinismo. Zone almost paradisíacas and little exploded. There an important colony of flamenco pink resides of the Caribbean.