So much to see, so little time. This sprawling city of two million people is one of the world's great historic cities, and one with the greatest
concentration of Spanish colonial buildings inall the Americas. Habana Vieja (Old Havana) is a 350-acre repository of castles and churches and columned mansions dating back centuries and boasting a spectacular amalgam of styles.
At the end of an exhilarating 50km causeway into the ocean which leaps from tiny cay to cay lie the picturesque Santa Maria and
Cayo Las Brujas and miles of beautiful white sands. The focus of much recent hotel development this is the place to find some of the most luxurious accommodations in Cuba.
Considered the crown jewel of Cuba's colonial cities, Trinidad was founded in 1514 as the fourth of the seven cities
established by colonizing governor Diego Velázquez. The early Spanish colonizers founded a lucrative if short-lived gold mine that lent vigor to the young township and tehe wharves at nearby Casilda.
The Valle de Viñales takes your breathe away with the most spectacular scenery in all Cuba Great mogotes—sheer, freestanding.
limestone knolls the size of skyscrapers—loom over a broad valley cut into the Sierra de Órganos mountains and suffused with the sunlit softness of a Pisarro painting.
Slung 177 kilometers south of the underbelly of Havana province, Cayo Largo is the largest and easternmost of the numerous coral
cays that comprise the Archipiélago de los Canarreos. This boomerang-shaped, low-lying sliver of land boasts some of the most gorgeous beaches in Cuba.
‘Reaching out into the calm waters of a huge enclosed bay, with a waterfront promenade, broad avenues beautifying its leafy southern neighborhoods and some
sumptuous colonial architecture, Cienfuegos is one of the prettiest, most laid-back cities in Cuba. Founded in 1819 by French settlers …imbues the city with a sense of newness and gracefulness especially in the Punta Gorda district…’
Cuba's second largest resort unspools along a seemingly endless swathe of talcum white and fine sands, broken into various
beaches along the north shore of these twin cays (one large, the other tiny) off the north coast of Ciego de Ávila province. Several of Cuba's most choice all-inclusive hotels are here.