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 Santa Clara Cuba, Che Guevara There are many reasons to visit Santa Clara, first is the museum of "Decorative Arts" and new Art Gallery, are located in Parque Vidal, offers modrn Cuban art, and the furniture and works of Colonial decorative art.    Hotels BookingRoom for Rent Fashion Festival Artist Painter  Contemporary Ballet Found in colonial mansions, located in the ancestral home of the Carta family, one of the most attractive buildings facing Leoncio Vidal Park. The exposition include furniture collections of 18th and the 19th centuries, with items influenced by the neoclassical, rococo and imperial Cuban styles. The dining room has an extraordinary collection of china and " linaiero", a piece of furniture containing a filter through which drinking water was passed into an earthenware jar. Tinajeros were used in all Cuban colonial homes and may still be found, preserved as a family heirloom, in many modern dwellings. Museum is defiantly worth to visit, with his very interesting paintings collection. Che Guevara use American bulldogger to stop the train. Today part of museum the exposition. The soldiers on the train surrendered quickly and the fighting for the train was soon over. There is a museum inside the wagons, shows weapons carried on train. |
      
The capital of province "Villa Clara" located in central Cuba, about three-hours drive from Havana, 268 km through the National Highway, Santa Clara was founded in 1689 from the village Cubanacan, of ancient Indian. With the population about 260 000, Santa Clara is a pleasant university city in the center of the island, an important commercial center for minerals, sugarcane, and livestock from the surrounding region. Industries include sugar and cigar factories. The City has mostly Colonial style architecture with narrow streets. Despite poor illumination during the night, the city is safe to walk around at night, with remarkably warm and friendly people. Cuba’s best dressed city, put its most glamorous fashion fair  Exuberarte - Santa Clara Fashion Show Fashion Festival will be held in Santa Clara, from April 19 to 21, with the attendance of the most talented Cuban designers, and the most attractive Cuban models, will show their latest collections. The Fashion Shows are in the city center, Vidal Park at 9 pm.  The best hotel in Santa Clara is hotel "Los Caneyes" located about 3 km from the city, address: Ave.de Los Eucaliptos and Circunvalacion, offers best lodging, meals and relaxation. Guests can choose from massage, digital acupuncture or mud cures. The hotel's architecture recreates the rustic, round thatched-roof huts, caneyes, that Christopher Columbus and other chroniclers of the conquest described in their diaries as the dwellings of Cuban natives. At the evening you can enjoy the fashion show. The hotel bar is open late at the swimming pool. Hotel Facilities: 91 air-conditioned cabanas, with private bath, satellite TV and telephone. Restaurant,snack bar, safety deposit box, currency exchange, swimming pool, shop, unisex hairdresser's, massage and body care. You must visit Cayo Santa Maria, located about 115 km north from Santa Clara.  Monument of Che at the Plaza de la Revolucion Ernesto Guevara, with a huge bronze statue of Che. Enter from National Highway in distance just 1 km. The remains of Che and his comrades who fell in Bolivia have been interred at this site the mausoleum is open to the public. Under the monument is a museum, "Museo Historico de la Revolucion" with good displays about Che's life and role in the revolution. Each year museum has about 170 000 visitors a year. Also very interesting place is site of the last battle of the Cuban revolution. The capture of the train was the decisive factor in the triumph of the revolution and it is now a major tourist attraction. Batista was on the point of sending an armored train with military supplies and soldiers to Santiago de Cuba to counter attack revolutionaries.  Night entertainment in Santa Clara. Cultural center " El Bosque" Disco and Cabaret opens Wednesday-Sunday 9pm to 1:30am. Patio Bar disco music open 24 hours, Caretera Central y Ave Sandino. Most popular discotheque is in hotel "Santa Clara Libre" Tuesday-Sunday 10pm-3am, in Central Park "Parque Vidal". There are also numbers of restaurants and bars around the park, Fast food bar 30 m from the Theatre. the corner bar has live Cuban " Salsa" music at night. Since 1998, Santa Clara has drawn the interest of foreign visitors as the venue of two. The burial of the remains of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Pope John Paul II's visit the city in January 22, 1998. It’s worth to visit Santa Clara, city offer visitors pleasant, easy-relaxing atmosphere.  |
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