Motel El Cornito

Las Tunas


A Cuban-oriented place located in bamboo woods near the site of El Cucalambé's old farm. The Jornada Cucalambeana country-music festival takes place here. Some 60 cabins, verging between basic breeze block-style and decent chalets, are scattered through the woods. Phone ahead.


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Nearby Las Tunas attractions

1. Cacique Maniabo y Jibacoa

0.06 MILES

A two-headed Taíno chief looking in opposite directions. It dominates the surroundings at the rustic Motel El Cornito 3km west of town.

2. El Cornito

0.08 MILES

The bamboo woods around Motel El Cornito, about 6km outside town, offer a welcome, shady diversion from the scorching city bustle. You'll find ranchón…

3. Monumento Al Trabajo

2.37 MILES

The 8m-high abstract Monumento Al Trabajo by José Peláez pays cubist homage to Cuban workers.

4. Museo Memorial Mártires de Barbados

2.59 MILES

Las Tunas' most evocative sight is in the former home of Carlos Leyva González, an Olympic fencer killed in the nation's worst terrorist atrocity: the…

5. La Fuente de las Antilles

2.65 MILES

This work, first unveiled in 1977, was elemental in reviving Cuba’s sculpturing traditions and making Las Tunas its HQ. The sculpture comprises a huge…

6. Memorial Vicente García

2.94 MILES

A colonial-era structure near the eponymous park that commemorates Las Tunas' great War of Independence hero who captured the town from the Spanish in…