Rancho Palma

Ciego de Ávila Province


This bucolic finca (farm) has a bar-restaurant where you can sample guarapo (pressed cane juice) and order lunch. A steam train chugs in here from the Central Patria o Muerte sugar museum daily and deposits a carriage-full of tourists.


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Nearby Ciego de Ávila Province attractions

1. Central Patria o Muerte

3.06 MILES

Cuba's sugar industry is preserved at this huge, rusting ex-sugar mill founded in 1914 in the village of Patria, 3km south of Morón. Guides explain the…

2. Terminal de Ferrocarriles

4.15 MILES

Morón has long been central Cuba's main railway crossroads and exhibits the most elegant railway station outside Havana. Built in 1923, the building's…

3. Museo Caonabo

4.2 MILES

In among the teeming sidewalks and peeling colonnades, this well-laid-out museum of history and archaeology is housed in Morón's former bank, an…

4. Parque Agramonte

4.36 MILES

Small park in the northern part of Morón with a small church and an old theater. The access road to Laguna de la Leche branches north from here.

5. Cockerel

4.37 MILES

Morón is famous for its emblematic cockerel, which stands guard on a roundabout opposite the Hotel Morón on the southern edge of town. It's named after a …

6. Laguna de la Leche

6.48 MILES

Laguna de la Leche (Milk Lake), named for its reflective underwater lime deposits, is Cuba's largest natural lake (66 sq km). Its water content is a…

7. Laguna La Redonda

7.87 MILES

Anglers, listen up: 12km north of Morón, off the Cayo Coco road, this mangrove-rimmed, 4-sq-km lake has the island's best square-kilometer density of bass…

8. Loma de Cunagua

8.08 MILES

This wild, foliage-covered loma (hill), the province's only real high ground, was turned into a flora-and-fauna reserve in 1985. With its fabulous coastal…