Small street corner gallery displaying local art in the town that spawned Cuba’s greatest painter, Wifredo Lam, born here in 1902.
Galería Wifredo Lam
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Conjunto Escultórico Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara
28.41 MILES
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28.35 MILES
A veritable alfresco theater named for Colonel Leoncio Vidal y Caro, who was killed here on March 23, 1896, Parque Vidal was encircled by twin sidewalks…
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Sitio-Museo Acción Contra El Tren Blindado
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Fábrica de Tabacos Constantino Pérez Carrodegua
28.06 MILES
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27.86 MILES
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Catedral de las Santas Hermanas de Santa Clara de Asís
28.33 MILES
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1. Museo Provincial Abel Santamaría
27.86 MILES
Not actually a memorial to Señor Santamaría (Fidel's right-hand man at Moncada), but rather a small provincial museum quartered in former military…
2. Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen
28 MILES
The city's oldest church is five blocks north of Parque Vidal. It was built in 1748, with a tower added in 1846. During the War of Independence it stood…
3. Fábrica de Tabacos Constantino Pérez Carrodegua
28.06 MILES
Santa Clara's tobacco factory, one of Cuba's best, makes a quality range of Montecristos, Partagás and Romeo y Julieta cigars. Tours here are lo-fi…
28.14 MILES
Far more intimate and intricate a monument than its big brother on the other side of town, this statue in front of the Oficina de la Provincia (PCC) four…
5. Sitio-Museo Acción Contra El Tren Blindado
28.2 MILES
History was made at the site of this small boxcar museum on December 29, 1958, when Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of 18 rifle-wielding revolutionaries…
28.27 MILES
Santa Clara is peppered with comic book–style murals, the work of a local graphic artists' collective called Melaíto, which produces a monthly supplement…
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Something of a sleeping beauty on Parque Vidal, this 18th-century mansion turned museum is packed with period furniture from a whole gamut of styles that…
28.29 MILES
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