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Opened in Santiago de Cuba Recreational Route to World Heritage

Category: Aniversario 500
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el morro santiago de cubaSantiago de Cuba, Mar 24.- The tour includes stops at the Balcon de Velazquez, one of the heights from which can be seen the urban landscape in addition to the fortifications with which the villa walling to the enemy coming from the nearby bay.

Other attractive stops are La Alameda Avenue, with significant investments in the heat of the 500 years of the city and, especially, the first section of a pier that returned the locals enjoying their seascape.

On the way to the imposing fortress Frank Hill Country, with its historic park chaired by the sculptural figure of the young underground fighter, and the remnants of other military buildings of Spanish colonialism also were posted as sentinels of demarcation they are appreciated.

Castle and travelers will enjoy the ceremony sunset ritual featuring a patriotic youth in the style of mambises, Cuban insurgents clashed in the nineteenth century the dominant forces in the deeds for independence.

Declared a World Heritage Site in 1997, the site is considered as an example of the school of Latin American military architecture and for safeguarding their constructive qualities applies maintenance routines specialists of the Office of the Curator of the City.

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