Travel Guide of Granma, Cuba
The province of Granma politician arises immediately as a result of the last division administrative, approved in November, 1976, and it assumes his new name in honor to the landing for beach Las Coloradas of the Yacht Granma, used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to disembark in Cuba with other guerrillas. The adoption of this new name takes place also for the existing controversy between the cities of Manzanillo and Bayamo, on the definitive name that should take the province that was including both, geographically nearby. Although Manzanillo, the city of Bayamo always had major level of development it was chosen by the Assembly of the Popular Power for capital of the province, agreeing him to propose this neutral denomination, name gathered in the history of Cuba. Granma was the yacht that brought Fidel and the expedition members who began the Revolution from the Sierra Maestra in 1956.
The province Granma finds in the portion south-west of the oriental region of the island of Cuba, borders to the North on the provinces of Las Tunas and Holguín, to the East on those of Holguín and Santiago de Cuba, on the South on Santiago de Cuba and the Caribbean Sea and on the West on the Gulf of the Guacanayabo. His territory includes an extension of 8.362 km ² - does not include the keys that have an extension of 9,6 km ²-, which constitutes 7,5 % of the whole of the surface of the country. A population of 833,600 inhabitants.
Province of exhuberante nature and rich history become infested with events of the struggles by the independence and more recently of the struggles between the guerrillas of Fidel Castro and the troops of the government of Fulgencio Batista.
His principal tourist attractions are:
- The city of Bayamo, rich in history told in his numerous museums and monuments, must not be allowed seeing the beautiful historical center where an ambience of the past is breathed and in that finds the Church of San Salvador . The cars of Bayamo are proverbial and this is a good way of doing a walk along the city: in car thrown by horses, it is not also necessary to stop tasting the tastiest large oysters that sell in small positions in the street.
- In the south, Manzanillo, interesting locality on the Gulf of Guanacayabo and where the Arab influence is evident in some parks and buildings, something strange in Cuba. in his surroundings there are some acceptable beaches.
- The Sierra Maestra, the biggest mountainous system of the country and stage of the struggles against the government of Fulgencio Batista at the end of the 50s and where there is located the National Park Desembarco of the Granma.
- The beach Marea del Portillo, one of the best of several that exist on the south coast of the province and that are provided with hotel infrastructure.