Things to do in Viñales
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Restaurante La Casa de Don Tomás
The oldest house in Viñales is also its best restaurant – by default (there’s no real opposition). The casa, with its terra-cotta roof and exuberant flowering vines, is suitably salubrious and the food’s OK if you stick to the house special, las delicias de Don Tomás, a rich mélange of rice, lobster, fish, pork, chicken and sausage with an egg on top (CUC$10). There’s an atmospheric deck out back.
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La Casa del Veguero
To learn about the local tobacco-growing process, stop by at La Casa del Veguero just outside Viñales on the road to Los Jazmines where you can see a fully operating secadero (drying house) in which tobacco leaves are cured from February to May. The staff gives brief explanations and you can buy loose cigars here at discount prices.
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El Jardín de Caridad
El Jardín de Caridad is a sprawling garden almost a century in the making. Cascades of orchids bloom alongside plastic doll heads, thickets of orange lilies grow in soft groves and turkeys run amok. Knock on the door of the Little Red Riding Hood cottage and one of the elderly owners will probably show you around.
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Cubanacán
Cubanacán organizes perennially popular day trips to Cayo Levisa (CUC$29), Cayo Jutías (CUC$22), San Tomás Cave (CUC$10) and María la Gorda (CUC$32). There’s an organized valley bike tour for CUC$20 and horseback riding from CUC$5. Official park hikes leave from here daily (CUC$8).
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Centro Cultural Polo Montañez
Named for the late Pinar del Río resident turned guajiro hero, Polo Montañez, this open-to-the-elements patio off the main plaza is a bar-restaurant with a full-blown stage and lighting rig that comes alive after 9pm.
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Museo Municipal
The Museo Municipal occupies the former home of independence heroine Adela Azcuy (1861–1914) and tracks the local history. Four different hikes leave from here daily.
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El Estanco II
A simple pizza and beer place 1km out of town on the road north, and a decent pit stop. A pizza costs a couple of Convertibles, a plate of spaghetti slightly more.
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ARTex
You can get postcards, T-shirts and CDs here. It’s attached to the Patio Decimista.
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Restaurante Las Brisas
This place serves deep-fried chicken and congrí (rice) for peanuts.
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Cine Viñales
The settlement’s only cinema is a block south of the main square.
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