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Guide Trinidad Sancti Spíritus English www.trinidaddecuba.travel INDEX 4 WELCOME 6 CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS 7 ATTRACTIONS 16 ARCHITECTURE 18 CRAFTS 20 VALLEY OF THE SUGAR MILLS 23 TOPES DE COLLANTES 26 ANCÓN PENINSULA 28 CULTURAL TRADITIONS 30 ACCOMMODATION 32 RECREATION AND LEISURE 33 TRAVEL AGENCIES 35 EXCURSIONS 39 STORES 40 WHERE TO EAT 42 USEFUL INFORMATION 44 WELCOME 50 ATTRACTIONS 52 MUSEUMS 54 ACCOMMODATION 55 EXCURSIONS 56 WHERE TO EAT 57 RECREATION AND LEISURE 58 USEFUL INFORMATION 59 REGULATIONS CUSTOMS 60 MAPAS 66 CURRENCY 67 INFOTUR 68 NATIONAL TOURIST INFORMATION OFFICE National Office of Tourist Information No. 303, 28 Street, / 3rd and 5th, Miramar, Playa. Havana City. Phone: (53) 7204 6635 Email: [email protected] Welcome to the Museum City of the Caribbean, TRINIDAD 4 | WELCOME Walking around Trinidad city will allow This city founded on January 1514 by Diego you not only to know one of the best Velazquez, is characterized by artistic preserved cities of America, which was gratings, wooden screens, stained glasses, declared Cultural Humankind Heritage doors and windows made with local fancy by UNESCO on December 8th 1998; but woods, cobble stone streets and red tiled also increases your spiritual knowledge roofs. But Trinidad wouldn´t stand along concerning its architectonical without its Sugar Mills Valley also declared treasures, legends of the past and Cultural Humankind Heritage by UNESCO. incomparable realities. The old Thanks to the slaves’ long working palaces and mansions still treasure hours, these old sugar cane plantations many stories to be discovered. In their in the valley were creating the big wealth big salons shone the best of the Cuban accumulated by the landowners and their intellectuals during their frequent sugar mills. Luckily for the city, as well social gatherings, the German scientist as for the world heritage, Trinidad, in the Alexander von Humboldt walked along southern and central part of Cuba, has kept its main square; a French man -who untouched all its attributes, that it carefully came to live at the village- made bells handled all the tricks of modernity and kept for the churches and a very symbolic steady on its decision of preserving the pergola; many other important and almost 500 years of its legacy. well known personalities, including the famous Cuban poet Placid, got In Trinidad you can find a great deal of to visit it too. Many of these buildings changeableness on its inhabitants for the nowadays turned into museums, offer hand-made crafts, plastic arts and for to the visitors the chance to discover craftsmanship in general; narrow streets the glory and splendor of a time where and central gardened courtyards; all the wealth of a few people, based on these and a lot more, you can surely find the sugar cane industry, was sustained in a city full of light, where the sun and the by the worst of all shames against the mountains mix with a big hotel chain mostly human being: slavery. by the sea shore, that will make you want to come back. Welcome to Trinidad of Cuba, the museum city of the Caribbean Sea. WELCOME | 5 Cultural Institutions Architecture Museum Ripalta / Rubén Martínez Villena and Fernando Hernández Echerri Working Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Close Fridays Museums Guamuhaya Archeology Museum Simon Bolivar corner Rubén Martínez Villena Open: Monday to Thursday. Saturdays and Sundays From 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Guamuhaya Archeology Museum Close Fridays National Museum of Fight against Bandits Fernando Hernández Echerri e / Piro Guinart and Ciro Redondo. Open: Tuesday to Sunday. From 9.00am to 5.00pm National Museum of Fight against Bandits Municipal Museum of History 423 Simón Bolívar Street / Gustavo Izquierdo and Peña Close Fridays Speleological Museum Hotel Las Cuevas Municipal Museum of History Hours: Monday to Sunday From 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Romantic Museum Fernando Hernández Echerri, corner Simon Bolivar. From 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Close on Mondays Romantic Museum 6 | CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Attractions of the urban community of the The historic XVIII century and the economic and commercial expansion of the first center half of the 19th century; but there is It is a space shaped by the beauties no differentiation of the styles, there and treasures of the 18th and 19th is an exquisite conglomerate, where centuries. The center has Martí Park, both stages overlap in the same one of the jewels of the city, and reading, which is enriched with the around it majestically some of the contributions of each one. main constructions of the Trinitarian colonial era are built. The Holy Trinity Trinidad, seen from the top of its Church, the Municipal Museums ostentatious towers, looks like a of History, Romantic, Archeology, labyrinth of roofs that here and there Architecture and Fight against Bandits, opens the way to the numerous as well as the characteristic streets squares around which the urban and buildings describe a wonderful dynamics of the city have always and unique city that resisted the developed and which have, without a passing of time, and lives its history doubt , significant cultural values on one more time in a special way. it, since they are located architectural buildings of cultural heritage. The time of construction of the city of Trinidad is comprised between the The nineteenth century was for eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Trinidad a stage of significant We can see a predominance of economic and social events as well houses with large doors, with spaces as a time of great architectural that occupy receiving rooms and splendor where the wooden bars that are reduced to the interior. Also disappear and are replaced by iron, characteristic are the criollo tiles, the houses grow substantially and bars and windows, a central courtyard many other constructive bodies such with a decorative sense and the eaves. as the portals are added , the room The facades of the buildings reproduce in the high floor and the viewpoints, decorative and functional elements are extended with a second floor, the that are representative of the time and struts are raised, the use of roofs is its pavement is original, characterized generalized, of the French shutters, by its good state of conservation. the semicircular arches closed with wooden fans and begins to endorser The Trinitarian architecture, eclectic by with marble the main floors. definition and native for its composition can be classified as a group of houses where the traditional habitats of different social classes are reflected during the two strongest historical stages in the city: the consolidation ATTRACTIONS | 7 when there were placed outside Squares and inside grates. Drawn by the engineer Julio Sagebién, in 1868 Plaza Mayor two wells were built. It was the place where Hernán Cortés and It is the oldest square in Trinidad. his troop camped to reestablish The church was built in front of their forces before leaving for the it. Located in the upper part of conquest of Mexico, and where the the city center, it is the central notable German sage Alexander nucleus from which the villa was of Humboldt was wandering. It developed, surrounded by majestic had several denominations: Plaza palaces, once illuminated with Mayor, Plaza de Fernando VII, olive oil lamps. Experts consider Plaza de la Constitución and in the it the second in importance in years 1856-57 Plaza Serrano and the country, after the Cathedral Plaza de Martí. Around it, we can Square (Plaza de la Catedral), in find several constructions of great the capital. Today’s appearance architectural value, each with a was adopted in March 26, 1857 valuable history to tell. Plaza del Jigüe (Square of the Jigüe) At the corner of Boca y Real, where this square is located, was held under the shade of a Jigüe tree the first Christmas mass of 1513, before the founding of the city. To perpetuate the solemn commemoration the tree of the Jigüe was included in the shield granted to the villa, in addition to name one of its squares. 8 | ATTRACTIONS Carrillo Square Original Park located in front of the Church of San Francisco de Paula. It got the name of Carrillo Square in 1840, in honor of the Brigadier Don Pedro Carrillo of Albornoz, to whom are credited several works of public utility, such as the pavement of Three Crosses Square numerous streets. Later on, it was denominated Park of Recess At the end of Amargura Street, and later Céspedes Park. Their three big wooden crosses are distinctive symbol is an enormous standing. They mark the place dome or pergola built of iron of the Calvary, where all the pieces, covered by a climbing believers arrive in Procession. that natural phenomena have The locals to commemorate demolished several times, but the religious activities during it has been put back in its place the festivities of the Saint Week thanks to the efforts of people in created this Square. Nowadays, Trinidad. The pergola was forged 14 big wooden crosses are by the famous French blacksmith, preserved, embedded in the Don José Giraud, resident of external walls of different houses the village. In the four interior that mark the journey of the corners some restored busts of processions to the Calvary. Cuban martyrs were placed. In one of its fronts is located the Great hotel Iberostar Trinidad. Square Santa Ana The small square with this name is located in front of the ancient Royal Prison of Trinidad - today a complex of services - and in front of Santa Ana’s Church located among Santo Domingo, San Procopio and Santa Ana streets. There is a small park denominated Armenteros, in honor to Isidoro Armenteros who along with Rafael Arcís and Fernando Hernández Echerri, on August 18 1851 were shot to death for defending the independence of their country from Spanish colonialism.