Colón St. on the corner of Francisco Vega St., Las Tunas ,
Las Tunas, Cuba
(+53) 3137279
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About
Cadillac
The historic Cadillac Hotel was rescued and re-opened in late 2008, after languishing and idle for decades. Great care has been taken to restore it to its orginal state and with period style fixtures, fittings and furniture. It is a significant triumph for Las Tunas, Islazul and the Minstry of Tourism.
The Hotel Cadillac was built in 1945 in the shape of a big ship and gives the impression of being anchored to the boulevard. Its central location allows easy access to the city’s historical, cultural and commercial centers such as the Jose Marti Plaza (with its sun clock and sea calendar), the Tunas Theatre, the Provincial Museum and the Major Gen. Vicente Garcia Gonzalez Memorial, a living memory of the leader who ordered the burning of the city on September 26, 1876 before turning it over to the Spanish enemy.
The small hotel has 8 standard rooms, 2 junior suites, night club, bar-cafeteria, and roof terrace.
Lucas Ortiz No.344 e/ Teniente Peisso y Mártires de Barbados, Las Tunas
Barbados Martyrs Memorial Museum
Founded in 1978 in which was the former house of the olympic sportsman Carlos Leyva, this monument is raised to honour the victims of the well-known Barbados Crime, which took place the 6th October 1976. In this air terrorist act died 73 people, among them the fencers Carlos Miguel Leyva González and Leonardo Mckenzie Grant. The museum is divided in three rooms destined to different exhibitions. The first one is dedicated to remember the crime, show photographies, proofs and other elements which assert the cruelty and truthness of the attack. The second one exhibits personal objects of the fencers, while the third one is focused on the exhibition of motifs related with their professional lives and also the ones of other sports delegation members who also passed away on the plane; just as their performance in the IV Centroamerican and Caribbean Championship, pre-matching meeting from where they were returning the day of the attack.
Calle Francisco Varona e/ calle Vicente García y calle Colón. Las Tunas
Mayor General Vicente García Provincial Museum
This antique colonial blue house is , for many, the most important building in the city. This building imposes itself majestically with its eclectic style and architectonic hierarchy in the historical center of the city of Las Tunas. Also known as the blue building, was in its beginning a colonial mansion of mister Enrique Rosende. After the Independence War it worked as Telegraph Headquarters until it burned with the rest of the city in 1897.
Years later, in 1921, the building was restored to work as City Hall or Municipal Palace until the middle of the 20th century. After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, it housed several government and teaching institutions, until the 80s when it was opened as Las Tunas Provincial Museum and, It has the name of one of the most important Generals who was part in the Ten Years’ War. One of the main social aims of this monument is the rescue, investigation and exhibition of the cultural heritage of the city and for that, different rooms have been prepared to host permanent and a temporary exhibitions, which show the history, science and culture of the Tunero community.
Jobabo, Las Tunas
Cabaniguán Hill
The Cabaniguán hill, located at the South of the municipality of Jobabo, between the provinces of Granma and Las Tunas, is famous for being the biggest reservation in the world of the species Acutus crocodile, also known as American, needle or big-nosed crocodile. Covering 14,500 hectares of land, you can make short aquatic visits to get into the most interesting and exotic refuge of wildlife in the country. On it you will have the chance to closely observe aquatic birds such as flamingos, exotic as the Cuban parakeet or the black-bellied whistling ducks, etc. It is a protected area at international level as Ramsar Wetland, therefore it is one of the best preserved and protected natural landscapes.
Francisco Varona, e/ Colon y JoaquinAguero, Las Tunas
Martiana Square
The beautiful original square dedicate to the National Hero José Martí is one of the must-visit places for the tourists who choose Las Tunas as destination. This distinctive square in the old town of the City of Las Tunas was designed by architect Domingo Alas Rosell and it is the perfect result of a project of Solar Architecture where it is mixed and combine the Astronomy and the History. Shadows from the sundial mark significant dates in José Martí’s history, culminating with a sunbeam that lights up the bronze statue’s face at 2:30 p.m. on May 19, commemorating the moment Martí died in battle at Dos Ríos. A light effect is inspired in the verses of the poet:
‘Do not put me in the dark,
to die as a traitor,
I am good and as good,
I will die facing the Sun’