Park sights in Santiago De Cuba
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Parque Histórico Abel Santamaría
This is the site of the former Saturnino Lora Civil Hospital, stormed by Abel Santamaría and 60 others on that fateful July day. On October 16, 1953, Fidel Castro was tried in the Escuela de Enfermeras for leading the Moncada attack. It was here that he made his famous History Will Absolve Me speech. The park contains a giant cubist fountain engraved with the countenances of Abel Santamaría and José Martí that gushes out a veritable Niagara Falls of water.
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Parque Céspedes
If there's an archetype for romantic Cuban street life, Parque Céspedes is it. A throbbing kaleidoscope of walking, talking, hustling, flirting, guitar-strumming humanity, this most ebullient of city squares is a sight to behold any time of day or night. Old ladies gossip on shady park benches, a guy in a panama hat drags his dilapidated double bass over toward the Casa de la Trova, while sultry señoritas in skin-tight lycra flutter their eye-lashes at the male tourists on the terrace of the Hotel Casa Granda. Meanwhile, standing statuesque in the middle of it all, is a bronze bust of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, the man who started it all when he issued the Grito de…
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Parque Alameda
At the foot of this Tivoli quarter, this narrow park embellishes a dockside promenade that opened in 1840 and was redesigned in 1893. At the north end you'll see the old clock tower, aduana (customs house) and cigar factory.
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