Hotels - Canimao

About  Canimao

Atop a hill bordering the Canímar River, navigable for various kilometers, you find this ideal hotel where you can enjoy complete holidays surrounded by a reassuring, tranquil, natural environment.

Its proximity to the city of Matanzas allows the visitor to tour its historical and cultural sites, marvel at its architecture, enjoy its bay and stroll along its crowded streets. Tourists can visit Varadero and enjoy the most famous Cuban beach. Another interesting spot is the Cueva de Bellamar (Bellamar Cave).

The excellent Tropicana Varadero Cabaret will make your evening a delight featuring a great show and top quality gastronomical services.

158 air-conditioned rooms with private bath, radio and satellite TV. Facilities: restaurant buffet, cafeteria, bar, grill bar, night club, swimming pool, game room, massage, mail service, shop, central security box, currency exchange, meeting room and parking.

Hotel Islazul Canimao is a budget hotel and it has not been renovated since it has been built, however the perfect location and the Cuban staff friendliness make it up for the structure. 

Calle Calzada 4 y Calle 13, Cárdenas, Matanzas

Oscar Maria de Rojas Museum

This beautifully restored museum is worth a visit for its wide-ranging exhibits on everything from archeology to ethnology to numismatics to colonial weaponry. The museum has a beautiful, bright inner courtyard displaying some lovely, early 19th-century furniture, as well as an ornate horse-drawn hearse. Lots of natural light illuminates the quirky, Victorian-era potpourri of natural-history exhibits, from bugs, butterflies, polymitas (snails with multicolored shells), to preserved fleas in nuptial dress, viewed under a magnifying glass. Antique buttons and buckles, pen nibs, death masks, a Masonic lodge throne in the shape of a peacock. On the historical side, there are the usual photographs of Cárdenas heroes of the wars of independence and the Revolution and a gruesome reminder of the risks rebels took, in the form of the garrote used to strangle victims to death. 

Cárdenas, Matanzas

Cárdenas City

The oldest statue in the western hemisphere dedicated to Admiral Christopher Columbus was erected in 1862 in a park in the old City of Cárdenas. Famous about its name "La Ciudad del Cangrejos" (city of the crabs). It’s also known as the Flag city due to the Cuban national flag was hoisted for the first time, atop the building of the La Dominica Hotel. Narrow streets full of horse-drawn carriages, and not anymore what it was used to be in the earlier years.

Finca Alcancia, Matanzas

Bellamar Caves

The Caves of Bellamar, the oldest active turistic attraction in Cuba, is one of the most beautiful of any on the island, not in vain, became a strong attraction for tourists just a while after they were discovered. The crystallization of a coraloidea, as abundant as portentous, sparkles in places the same as diamond, splitting the light into thousands and thousands of beams. Stalagmites and the pavement is uneven. At some points in this gallery are three pieces of wall and ceiling with naked crystallization. At intervals through the wall you can find henequen leaves. Drops of water falling on the clay give rise to a coarse crystallization it is a yellowish surface, crystal and opaque on the bottom. The roof of this vault is of coarse limestone, there is no evidence of releases and calms the mind and heart, gives new breath to continue his exploration. The low ceiling with has large areas of crystallization coraloidea and big beautiful flakes that look like porcelain.

Calle del Medio e/ Milanés y Calle 282, Matanzas

San Carlos Cathedral

Recently restored on the outside, this massive, neoclassical church with two ornate towers is famous for its interior frescoes. In front of the church, there is a huge ceiba tree with a heavy, metal bell hanging from one of the branches, commemorating the bells that were rung to call in slaves from the sugar plantations. On the ground below lies a large, antique metal gear from a sugar mill.

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