Villa Clara |

PARQUE LEONCIO VIDAL

Center of the social and cultural life of the city in it is the source of the Boy of the Unfortunate Boot. It is surrounded by some of the main buildings of the city such as the Teatro La Caridad and the Museum of Decorative Arts.

PLAZA DEL CARMEN

Foundational square of the city where the monument to the 18 founding families of the town is located.

COMPLEJO ESCULTÓRICO MEMORIAL COMANDANTE ERNESTO GUEVARA

Located in Ernesto Guevara square, this memorial saves the remains of the Argentine guerrilla and those of his fighting partners in Bolivia.

LAGO ARTIFICIAL HANABANILLA

Declared Protected Natural Landscape is an ideal place for the practice of specialized photography and sport fishing.

REMEDIOS

Eighth villa of Cuba, is widely known for its famous parrandas, popular parties of great popular roots declared intangible heritage of humanity.

CAYOS DE VILLA CLARA

Linked to the mainland by a 48 km long highway, they have paradisiacal beaches and constitute an important tourist destination on the Island.

It is comprised by 13 municipalities whose capital is the city of Santa Clara. Founded on July 15, 1689 by a group of families from Remedios, who settled in this area to get away from the attacks of pirates and celebrated their first mass under a tamarind tree. It is known as the “Ciudad del Ché”, on account of its most recent history linked to the actions of this internationalist fighter.

Capital: Santa Clara

Extension: 8 662 sq. km Municipalities: Santa Clara, Corralillo, Quemado de Guiñes, Sagua la Grande, Santo Domingo, Ranchuelo, Cifuentes, Camajuaní, Encrucijada, Remedios, Caibarién, Placetas y Manicaragua Denonym: villareño/a Limits: it limits to the north with the Atlantic Ocean, to the east with the province of Sancti Spíritus, and to the west with the provinces of Cienfuegos and Matanzas

Access: The main accesses are by land via the Autopista Nacional (National Highway) and the Carretera Central (Central National Road), while by air it can be accessed through the airport located in the provincial capital and the airfield of Cayo Las Brujas. The territory is linked to the northern keys by a causeway.

PLACES OF INTEREST 1 PARQUE LEONCIO VIDAL

Marta Abreu, Rafael Tristá, Máximo Gómez, and Luis Estévez streets