Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
The Antiguo Cafetal Angerona, 5km west of Artemisa on the road to the Autopista Habana–Pinar del Río (A4), was one of Cuba’s earliest cafetales (coffee…
Must-see attractions in Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
Las Terrazas
The most moving ruins in Las Terrazas are about 1.5km up the hill from the Puerta las Delicias eastern gate, and accessible by road. Cafetal Buenavista is…
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
Marking the border between Havana and Matanzas provinces, this is Cuba’s longest (314m) and highest (103m) bridge. Begun in 1957 and finally opened by…
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
This wild park, 6km west of Jaruco via hushed unmarked lanes, is a protected area featuring forests, caves and strangely shaped limestone cliffs. Havana…
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
Unique in Cuba is this fun selection of cartoons, caricatures and other entertaining ephemera. Among the drawings exhibited in a neoclassical colonial…
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
Fitting right into the ecological rainbow of Soroa is this private farm where you can relax, learn about medicinal plants and even partake in a day of…
Las Terrazas
The former lakeside house of local musician Polo Montañez, regarded as one of Cuba’s finest-ever folk singers, is now a small museum containing various…
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
Tumbling down a landscaped hillside garden next door to Hotel & Villas Soroa is this labor of love built in the late 1940s by Spanish lawyer Tomás Felipe…
Las Terrazas
These ruins of a 19th-century coffee estate are down a branch road at La Cañada del Infierno (Trail to Hell), midway between the Hotel Moka access road…
Mausoleo a los Mártires de Artemisa
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
Revolution buffs may want to doff a cap to the Mausoleo a los Mártires de Artemisa. Of the 119 revolutionaries who accompanied Fidel Castro in the 1953…
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
The vegetation-rich 'rainbow falls' is a 22m-high cascade on the Arroyo Manantiales. The entrance to the park encompassing it is to the right just before…
Las Terrazas
About 3.5km west of the Hotel Moka access road, the Hacienda Unión is a partially reconstructed coffee-estate ruin that features a country-style…
Iglesia de San Antonio de los Baños
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
This impressive early-19th-century church has twin towers and porthole windows, and is the largest, grandest religious building in Artemisa and Mayabeque.
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
Standing disused on a hilltop like a huge rusting iron skeleton, this former sugar mill, 5km south of Santa Cruz del Norte, was one of Cuba’s largest and…
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
Once lush – now largely overgrown – gardens formerly owned by the famous American chocolate tycoon Milton Hershey who ran the nearby sugar mill. There's…
Galería Provincial Eduardo Abela
Artemisa & Mayabeque Provinces
This bold and groundbreaking art gallery is anything but provincial. The first room focuses on painting while others showcase poignant black-and-white…
Las Terrazas
In the middle of Las Terrazas village at the top of a large knoll, this mini-mall encompasses a cinema, a cafe, a library and a small ecomuseum that gives…
Las Terrazas
Several well-known Cuban artists are based at Las Terrazas, including Lester Campa, whose work has been exhibited internationally. Pop into his lakeside…
