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Cienfuegos Travel Guide





Province with exit to the Caribbean Sea, the south, enjoys the important bay of Jagua, one of the main entry points of raw materials and supplying for the industries of bordering provinces. This small province is one of the most industrialized (refineries, tabaqueras, cementeras and steel mills) and of less important in agriculture. The relief is dominated by the Heights of Santa Clara and the Mountain range of Trinidad (Escambray) and the level slabs with its spectacular beaches.

The capital, of equal name that this central and well-known province like the "Per it of the South", was founded by a group colonos francófonos arrived at the beginning of century XIX to this end like Fernandina de Jagua, of there the French decorative influence. It is elevated in the bay of Jagua next to the castle of Our Mrs. of Jagua, constructed in 1745. It is worth the trouble to visit in Cienfuegos the park Jose Martí, the Cathedral of the Purest Conception, the Palace of Government, the school San Lorenzo and the theater Tomás Terry, as well as the one that outside Spanish Casino. Its historical center, that includes 70 apples of constructions, was declared in July of 2005 World-wide Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO, becoming thus the eighth and more recent place of the country obtaining it.

Also, near the city is the Botanical Garden, one of the best ones of the plant world tropical. Important cultural center from its birth, is cradle of the singer Benny More' and the Aragón orchestra. The seaport turns it an important center of commerce.

The City of the Sea, Cienfuegos, is without doubts the beautiful city but of Cuba. Located in the center-south of the country, on the margins of the bay of Jagua, it was founded by originating French of the Louisiana in 1819. In her parks can be admired, full escultoricos monument theaters, churches, cemeteries of great value, architectonic jewels like the Valley Palace and the Terry theater. The impressive bay serves as frame for the practice of all type of acuaticos sports and to few kilometros of the urban center Moon is located to the beach of Farm, of coralline sands.

In Cienfuegos and its environs there are 7 hotel facilities, two of them of category 4 stars, tens of rooms in particular, good houses restaurants and optional nocturnal centers and other recreational ones.




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