Cameron - Insight Guides: Cuba

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Getting around the e-book

This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Cuba, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editors Choice categories of activies and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Cuba. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, hotels, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Cuba are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

Youll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Cuba. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors who use their on-the-ground experience to provide the very latest information; their local expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to stay and eat, so you can be confident that when we say a restaurant or hotel is special, we really mean it.

Like all Insight Guides , this e-book contains hundreds of beautiful photographs to inspire and inform your travel. We commission most of our own photography, and we strive to capture the essence of a destination using original images that you wont find anywhere else.

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Cubas Top 10 Attractions

From wonderful views and heroic sights to colonial architecture and great music venues, here at a glance are Cubas greatest attractions.

Top Attraction 1

Plaza de la Revolucin, Havana . Imagine the crowds, thousands deep, listening to one of Fidels former eight-hour May Day speeches, standing in the scorching heat on the acres of asphalt overlooked by General Batistas monolithic government buildings. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 2

Trinidad . A Unesco World Heritage Site, this is one of the most beguiling towns in Cuba, a place of great architectural interest, full of atmosphere and color and throbbing with music. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 3

Museo Nacional Palacio de Bellas Artes (Arte Cubano), Havana . A magnificent collection of 20th-century Cuban art can be seen here, tracing the development of styles from pre- to post-revolutionary painting and sculpture. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 4

Fbrica de Tabacos Partags, Havana . Even for non-smokers, a visit to this famous cigar factory is an experience, both aromatic and educational, with amazing skills on display. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 5

Valle de Viales . When the mists hover over the tobacco fields leaving only the tops of the palm trees and the sheer-sided, limestone mogotes on view, this is one of the most beautiful places on earth. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 6

Casa de Velzquez , Santiago de Cuba . Construction of Cubas oldest house was started in 1516. It is now a fascinating museum. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 7

Cementerio Santa Ifigenia, Santiago . Most of Cubas famous sons and daughters, including Jos Mart, are buried here. There is an eclectic mix of mausoleums and graves. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 8

Callejn de Hamel , Havana . Where exuberant art and music mix this is the place to be on a Sunday afternoon. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 9

Parque Nacional Desembarco de Granma . The mangroves, swamps, and razor-sharp grasses in this national park still give an idea of how unwelcoming the landing site was for the guerrilleros on their arrival from Mexico. For more information, .

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