Ciego de Avila, Cuba, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) Tourists from Canada, United Kingdom, Argentina and Spain frequently visit the Sugar Museum Patria o Muerte, a place to meet a part of Cuban history.
Located in the city of Moron, about 500 kilometers from Havana, the facility offers the opportunity to observe the different stages through which has passed the sugar industry on the island.

The museum has a warehouse for the exhibition of a dozen steam locomotives from the Baldwing and Vulcan brands, made early last century and still in perfect conditions.

It also shows a steam crane, which worked in the construction of the Panama Canal, a 1917 zeppelin, a via engine, and a stork (small engine of manual movement), and also a tandem, scales and mills.

In the outdoor area, in a nice environment surrounded by trees, the tourist enjoys the performance of the local folk group Afrocaribe, that through dance symbolize the work of the slaves of the time, in the sugar production.

The ceremony takes place around the replica of a mill (rustic cane grinding system) and an ox plough, used to manufacture sweets in the stage of the colony.

A classic country house of the Californian style functions as the exhibition hall, where videos about the process of agribusiness and its derivatives are shown, and photos, documents, articles of interest and a brief history of the factories of the territory.

The tour concludes has a final five kilometers ride on three open cars pulled by a steam locomotive, which allows tourists to learn about the cultivation of sugarcane in Cuba.

The tour ends in a rustic shack, where the traveler in direct contact with nature can enjoy a cold cane juice and a Creole lunch, cooked with charcoal.

José Ángel Sierra, a museum specialist, told Prensa Latina that in the surrounding areas it is located the sugar mill camp that emerged in the 20's of the last century, where the sugar mill workers lived.

Built in 1914, the Patria o Muerte was the first sugar mill on the island to introduce mechanization in sugarcane processing. It was December 20, 1962 when Ernesto Che Guevara used in combine sugarcane harvester in the fields near that place.

After the restructuring process of the sugar industry in 2002, it became a museum to safeguard the Cuban sugar heritage and keep alive the historical and cultural traditions of one of the most historical industries in the Caribbean country.