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Santa Clara is located in central Cuba, 274 km from Havana through the National Highway. Santa Clara has mostly Colonial style architecture with narrow streets.
It’s wonderful to visit Santa Clara, city offer visitors pleasant relaxing atmosphere, is home of very friendly people.   USA Americans visit Cuba view


Hotel Santa Clara Libre  2 Star high green hotel, facing Parque Vidal city center, the restaurant located on the top floor, with beautiful view of the city. Hotel Rate/Book view
"Los Caneyes" 3 Star hotel the best hotel in Santa Clara, the architecture recreates the rustic, round thatched-roof huts caneyes. Fashion show, air-conditioned cabanas, restaurants, swimming pool.  Hotel Rate/Book view
"Villa La Granjita" 3 Star is a place for lovers of nature, located 5 km from downtown. Its two-storey bungalows are scattered among beautiful vegetation, including palm, fruit trees and swimming pool.
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Vidal Park Santa Clara city center
There are many reasons to visit Santa Clara:
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• Memorial of Pope John Paul II, honour his historic visit in Santa Clara in 1998.
• Monument of Ernesto Che Guevara and museum of Che, outlook his live in Cuba.
• Museum of "Decorative Arts" with impressive collection of Colonial decorative arts.
• Art Gallery at the corner of Parque Vidal, display art work of modern Cuban artists.

Decorative Arts Museum
Found in colonial mansions, located in the ancestral home of the Carta family, is one
of the most attractive building in Sanata Clara, facing Leoncio Vidal central 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
very interesting paintings collection. Decorative Art Museum view

Proof of medical coverage is mandatory for all Visitors to Cuba.  Get Free Quote view

If you are in Santa Clara you must visit Cayo Santa Maria 118 km north of the city.
Santa Clara has drawn the interest of foreign visitors as the venue of two. The burial
of the remains of Ernesto Che Guevara, and visit January 1998 of the Pope John Paul II

Pop John Paul II Memorial in Santa Clara

 Impressive memorial of John Paul II statue, commemorating Pope John Paul II historic trip to Cuba in 1998. The statue
 came from Rome as a gift from Vatican, was placed at the site of John Paul's first Mass during his visit
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Monument of Che on Plaza de la Revolucion Ernesto Che Guevara, with a huge bronze statue of the Ernesto Che Guevara.
Enter from the National Highway, in distance just one kilometre.  Che Guevara view

Every year more than 250 000 Cubans and foreigners visit the Ernesto Guevara sculptural complex. 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 of Che Guevara Museo Historico de la Revolucion, with good displays about Che life in Cuba.

Batista's armored train Interesting place is the site of the last battle of the Cuban revolution. Batista was on the point of sending an armored train with military supplies and soldiers to Santiago de Cuba, to counter attack of revolutionaries. Che Guevara use American bulldogger to stop the train. The soldiers surrendered quickly and the fighting for the train was over.

The capture of the train was the decisive factor in the triumph of the revolution. Train is now tourist attraction,
there is a museum inside the wagons, shows weapons carried on the train. Room for rent view


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