City

In a journey for the Cuban cities, we will be able to notice of the socio-cultural development of the country. Calls the attention, the high patrimonial and architectural values and the good state of conservation of different groups of centennial edifications, including the characteristic constructions of the Spaniard Military Engineering of the colonial time.

Seven were the first villages founded by the early Diego Velázquez and the Spanish Conquerors in Cuba: Baracoa (the prime city), Bayamo, Santiago de Cuba, and Santa María del Puerto de Principe (today Camagüey), Sancti Spíritus, Trinidad and San Cristóbal de la Habana. In the capital city it was concentrated the economic, historical, cultural and social development of the country. The progress experienced by some, allowed them to arrive until our days with its own name and to stay among the most important Cuban cities.

Havana, capital of Cuba from the XVI century, is one of the Caribbean cities with a richer and older cultural patrimony. Cosmopolitan, cheerful and unprejudiced, possesses the charisma of the prodigious cities that appears in that mixture of modernity and antiquity of its eclectic architecture. In the rest of the towns it reigns today a calmed atmosphere, and are noticed more the one roots of the cultural, culinary and historical traditions. But in all it stands out the hospitable character that identifies the Cubans, arriving to their maximum expression in the heroic city of Santiago de Cuba, the second in importance in the country.