CAPITOLIO

The Republican representation of power and influence on U.S. government leaders of the new, young state consists of the National Capitol, the architects Otero and Bens, inspired by the Capitol in Washington and created monumental neoclassical style. It was completed in 1929 under the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. The huge plant is enriched by precious materials and a large 11 m high statue, which depicts the Republic. The Italian sculptor Angelo Zanelli contributed statuistico ornament of the palace. For thirty years the Capitol has hosted the Republican parliament.
The Revolution has fitted out the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, in the left wing, and the Academia de Gencias de Cuba on the right.

GUAMA

ZAPATA - GUAMA

The whole southern part of Matanzas province, overlooking the Caribbean Sea, is occupied by the Peninsula de Zapata, a large area flat and marshy entitled to the name of the former owner of the land. All'intemo this is the Cienaga de Zapata, the marsh, home to abundant wildlife. After rivouzione major reclamation works have made Thousands of hectares cultivated, where large citrus groves were planted.
In the territory of the Cienaga de Zapata was implanted with an intensive rearing of crocodiles, the world's second in size after the Thai.
A La Buca de Guam at about 100 km from Varadero, is the de Criadero Cocodrilos, breeding, where large reptiles are kept in pens securely protected by heavy wire mesh. The natural environment is the swamp in which the two species grown, Cuban crocodile, native, and the American alligator, are reproduced. At hatching the chicks are transferred into special pens and grown by age group. Only when they reach an age and a size that makes them safe from predators are placed in enclosures together with the more mature fish. The environment is attractive and is one of the few opportunities to see the impressive reptiles in the natural environment and security.

SANTA CLARA

PARQUE LEONCIO VIDAL - TREN BLINDADO

Provincial capital is the city of Santa Clara, located at the center of the island, among the hills. It was founded in 1689 by about twenty families from the coastal village of San Juan de los Remedios, near the present Caibarién, tired of setting up a target of pirates. Santa Clara university, the second to Cuba in order of foundation. The old town has a regular shape with perpendicular streets lined with low houses on pole.
The main square Parque Leoncio Vidal is dedicated to the figure of Che Chevara most distinguished himself in the liberation struggles of the nineteenth century. Around the square are lined main buildings of the city. Santa Clara was the scene of a key episode of the revolutionary struggle. At the end of December 1958, the guerrilla column led by Ernesto Che Guevara derailed on the outskirts of an armored train, loaded with weapons, ammunition and soldiers of Batista, direct
the south. Santa Clara had a central role in the advance towards Havana. The victory of the column that allowed the junction with the column commanded by Camilo Cienfuegos and opened the way to the capital to the revolutionary forces, marking the final defeat of the Batista.
The Monument to the Tren Blindado is located near the train station. We have retained three of the thirty cars that made up the convoy. Inside the carriages are relics and memorabilia, photographs and documents.
The Mausoleum Commander Ernesto Che Guevara is a sculptural, the largest monument dedicated to the Argentine fighter, who died on the 18th of October 1967 and whose remains were scattered after being burned by the Bolivian authorities. It is located in the Plaza de la Revolucion, the city's outskirts.

SOROA

At the border between the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Havana, 85 km from the capital, on the heights of the Sierra del Rosario, declared 'biosphere reserve' by UNESCO, is the tourist center of Soroa, charming and fresh corner surrounded in tropical vegetation. The town owes its name to the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Soroa, a pioneer in the cultivation of coffee in this area. In the natural environment of the beautiful valley was organized, the park of Villa all'intemo donated to the Cuban state by Ignacio Soroa, a descendant of Jean-Pierre, a variety of orchid collecting orchids and several other specimens of tropical flora, giving rise in spectacular blooms, especially in the middle months of winter. Nearby, along a well marked path, you reach the Salto de Soroa waterfall of the river itself forming pools of clear fresh water.

VINALES

At 25 km north of Pinar del Rio, Vinales, located a short distance from the valley of the same name that made her famous. The valley presents compelling geomorphological features that characterize the landscape and make it unique in the island. The cultivated fields alternating with tobacco, in the winter and spring, and corn, summer and autumn, these are surrounded by rounded hills hoyo calls Mogote, which rise, mostly isolated from tens to hundreds of meters, covered with velvety tropical vegetation that makes it even softer than they look in the back of an elephant. The surroundings of Vinales Valley is characterized by significant karst features. The large cave opens into a Mogote which leaves an underground river. You can get a boat and go into the cavity of the features of the river, between the white limestone rocks. In the nearby Valley of Dos Hermanas on a cliff 120 m high was painted the murals of the Prehistory, work as high as 180 m long and the wall that represents the Earth's history. The work was painted by a group of youths led by the artist Leovigildo Gonzales, a student of the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.