Cienfuegos – A Proud Cuban Town with Glorious Past

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Cuba Cienfuegos

The view of Cienfuegos in Cuba

The Town of Hundred Fires – as Cienfuegos is often called by its inhabitants – is the biggest sugar exporting port in the world. The bay on the sothern coast of Cuba is ten sea miles deep, but its entrance is just some few hundred metres wide. The town has a strictly rectangle street structure and is full of tradition. The most important place in the town is the park Parque Marti, which is significant because of the big monument that was raised on the occasion of the founding of the Republic of Cuba in 1902. Walking through this town with 160 thousand inhabitants, you will observe many old magnificent buildings with neoclassical facades as well as the remarkable building of the Teatro Terry. The theatre belongs to the most beautiful buildings on Cuba. Walking from the centre of the town through the wide Calle 37 you will come to the peninsula Punta Gorda. Some beautiful villas with well-kept gardens testify to the past of this region as the luxury residential quarter. Just beside the hotel Jaguar, the Palacio del Valle is situated. The building was constructed in 1917 and represents the Moorish architectural style. Nowadays, it houses a museum that is worth seeing, above all for its uncommon interior.  

 

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