Travel Guide of Villa Clara, Cuba
Travel Guide of Villa Clara, Cuba.
The province of Villa Clara is in the central region of Cuba. It borders to the north on the Gulf of Mexico, the strait of the Florida and the Old Channel of the Bahamas. On the south it borders on the Caribbean sea. It has a surface of 8 661,5 km ², a population of 833 424 inhabitants and a population density of 96,2 for km ².
The tourism is located in the zones of the lake Hanabanilla and the Escambray, in the keys and coasts of the north and in the mining spa of waters - medicinal and thermal of Elguea. The province is limited to the north by a system of keys, with small beaches of limpid waters and thin white arena, which they invite to the diving and to the submarine photography.
Placed almost in the geographical center of the island is almost forced step of the one that travels round ground from one end to other from Cuba.
His principal tourist attractions are:
- The city of Santa Clara where they emphasize the square and the monument to the guerrilla Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara, the Train - museum of the battle of Santa Clara (freed between the forces of Che Guevara and those of the president of that time Batista), the Park Vidal and several buildings of the surroundings as the Theater La Caridad and the Historical Museum, in the surroundings there are the center Los Caneyes, an imitation of a village aborigén and the lake Minerva, with infrastructure of accommodation.
- The Lake Hanabanilla, located in the Saw of the Escambray and famous for his trouts, is framed by a natural way of big beauty, there are options of Creole restaurants in the zone and accommodation.
- Key Santa Maria with magnificent beach and hotel of 4 stars. It is joined to ground by a highway on the sea, the trip for this route is a pleasant experience.
- The city of Remedios, one of the urban centers better where there has preserved in Cuba the architecture and the ambience of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, famous also for his binges, luck of popular traditional holidays, is a place that deserves to be visited and there are good options of restaurants and palates (the private Cuban, generally more economical restaurants), as well as of private houses where to stay. Remedios is also an intermediate point to visit Key Santa Maria, from which it is distant next to 75 km.
- The port of Caibarién where it is possible to eat fresh seafood and gain access to Fragoso Key and his paradisiac beach.
- The Spa Elguea, with waters medicinal and placed almost on the coast (north).