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Havana

The best thing about Havana is the city itself - its architecture, streets and famous promenades. Especially famed is the historical centre of the city that was declared part of the world's cultural heritage. This vibrant city is a scientific and cultural centre. Within its 47 km of coastline, you will find 20 km of beaches as well as places to go diving and deep-sea fishing.

Trinidad
This city is considered to be one of Cuba’s main attractions. The traffic free, colonial district with its colourful houses and old, massive cobblestone crowns the rest of the city as its highest point. You can admire interesting details of colonial architecture when walking through the streets around Plaza Mayor. Especially famous are the high windows with their skilfully carved wooden bars that were replaced last century by iron bars. Around Plaza Mayor, the most elegant square in Cuba, stand the city palaces of Trinidad’s richest families: Iznagas, Ortiz and Brunete, whose palaces are nowadays museums.

Santiago de Cuba

For over 5 centuries Parque Cespedes has been Santiago´s centre and everyone's favourite meeting point. The pompous yellow cathedral watches majestically over life and events on the square. The cathedral was built in its present form in 1922. Directly opposite the cathedral is situated the town hall, from which on 1rst January 1959 Fidel Castro declared the revolution. To the left of the town hall is Cuba 's oldest house - Casa Diego Velásquez. The first Cuban governor's house, which was built in 1516, nowadays features a museum for colonial art. On the right from the cathedral one can see the wonderful recently renovated colonial hotel Casa Granda.

Baracoa

Baracoa lies in the Cuban province Guantánamo.

Originally Baracoa was the first city on the island but lost its constitutional significance through centuries, and today the city attracts the visitors thanks to its well-preserved charm and historical spots. The history of Baracoa began many centuries ago with the arrival of Columbus to its shores so that in 1512, the city Baracoa was founded.

Its idyllic location between the mountains and the sea created a perfect settling down place for its new inhabitants while at the same time making it possible to stay separated from other towns and populations. Thus Baracoa inhabitants engaged in smuggling trade with their neighbors as long as they could protect themselves against the pirates' attacks. In the end, they had to build three large fortresses overlooking the sea. This romantic city has a lot of sightseeing to offer to its visitors, like the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Asunción and the large wooden cross 'Cruz de Parra' brought in by Christopher Columbus. In addition to the city sights, one can go on a boat trip in a traditional Cayuco boats on the Río Toa river.

Holguín

The city of Holguin was developed in 1545 as a 'City of Parks'. Today, right in the city-centre you will find Calixto Garcia park. Another special monument is the Museo de Ciencias while the extensive main square 'Plaza Calixto Garcia' was built with the pink and green marble with an impressive statue of the general Calixto Iñiguez García to be found in the middle. Around this place there are various objects of interest, like the Museo Provincial de Historia, the Casa de la Trova (music meetings find here), as well as the center Provincial de Artes Plásticas (art gallery). Further places and objects of interest of the city are the Plaza Julio Grave de Peralta, the church Catedral de San Isidro, the Plaza San José with the Iglesia San José, as well as the only turning organ factory of the country (Fábrica de Órganos) and the Plaza de la Revolución with that close convenient baseball stadium.

Camagüey

The birth of Camagüey as a capital in Punta de Guincho, facing the Bay of Nuevitas, dates back to February 2 of the year 1514. Camagüey was one of the first seven villas founded by the Spanish colonizers in the Island and baptized as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe.

Nevertheless, it was only on January 6, 1528 that the captial was definite and paradoxically moved to its current location, between the Tínima and Hatibonico rivers and well away from the coasts, to escape from the frequent attacks of pirates and corsairs according to some historians or to avoid the plagues, the infertility of the soils and the lack of water, according to the opinion of others.