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Welcome to the
Trinidad Travel Guide
The city of Trinidad this located in the center of the island, the province of Sancti Spiritus. Trinidad is one of the first villas founded on Cuba (1514) and has been declared by UNESCO Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity and is where the architecture and the colonial air better have been conserved in the island reason why also Museum of the Caribbean Sea is known him like City. In fact she is one of but the charming and magical cities in all Caribbean and Latin America.
Located in the central province of Sancti Spiritus, the long ago well-known one as Villa of the Santísima Trinidad had his origin towards the 1514, to be placed between the seven first villas founded by the Spaniards on the Cuban archipelago, Also call the City Museum of Cuba, has the privilege of being one of the colonial localities of the country and describes in addition between the more complete and conserved architectonic sets to the American continent, Declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO in 1988 and route forced towards the conquest of new territories, one was based next to the margins of the Guaurabo river, where the Spaniards found native a population used as fertile manual labor, earth and excellent ports for the preparation of expeditions.
True treasure of the diverse wealth, the villa extended its limits in century XVI, supported in the incipiente sugar industry, to grow as an urban nucleus between grates of singular forms, showy constructions and paved with stones streets, It counts the history that the site selected by the Advanced Diego Vela'zquez for the foundation this where the Martí Park is located at the moment, with the first mass in the shade of jigüe and in charge of Fray father Bartholomew of the Houses, Colonial, ample, comfortable and ventilated large houses, palaces where the luxury and the waste made of hers to integrate themselves to the Cuban colonial art, turn to Trinidad an unquestionable city-planning and architectonic jewel of long ago, The decorative sign characteristic of the houses of the city has its base in the neoclassic ornamentación, reflected in murals, moldings, marks of wood and in the capricious forms that the forjadores of the iron managed to print to him, so that it became one of the greater enchantments of the city, In the Greater Seat, central axis of the old villa, is located a statue of Terpsícore - musa of the dance and music -, accompanied by the singular beauty of the church of the Santísima Trinidad, faithful guardian of valuable pieces of the religious treasure of the island. Among them they include the Christ of the Side Cross, together with a marble altar dedicated to the cult of the Virgin of the Mercy, unique of its sort in the country.
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