Views from Matanzas Cuba:
The city of Matanzas was founded in 1693 as San Severino y San Carlos. It was also known as Cuba's Athens or America's Venice, because of its rivers, bridges and canals
Because of its many overpasses, Matanzas was also called the "city of bridges", among which the old La Concordia bridge, known today as Lacret, or the Calixto García bridge, just to mention some, stand out.
In Matanzas a popular Cuban rhythm was born: the Danzón.
Places of interest:
the cave of Bellamar: one of the Caribbean’s largest and most beautiful underground formations. Two kilometres of underground passages are covered in peculiar stalagmites, stalactites and calcite crystals
the ruins of the Triunvirato sugar mill
- and the Canímar woods on the outskirts of Matanzas. the woods are best seen from the river. At the mouth of the river is a small colonial castle (El Morrillo) where a the bodies of two revolutionaries rest in a mausoleum. The castle also has an archaeological museum with ecological displays.
the Canímar River
Vigía Square, site of the original town, has the Junco Palace Historical Museum, the 19th century Sauto Theatre and an exhibition of ancient fire-fighting equipment in the former military headquarters.
Le Triolet French pharmacy, built in 1882, is still stocked with ancient drugs, utensils and porcelain medicine flasks, all preserved under glass on the store’s original shelves of hand-finished Cuban wood.
Palmar de Junco Stadium, where the first official baseball game was held in Cuba.
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