FORTRESS ON THE HILL (FUERTE DE LA LOMA), PUERTO PADRE
This is a beautiful city that proudly shows off its beautiful bay and the cleanliness of its streets.
Over 40 000 people inhabit this town that treasures beautiful history the most significant of which if the imposing Fortress on the Hill (Fuerte de la Loma) –today converted into a museum-, built in the XIX century by the Spanish colonialists in the highest part of the region, the first place proclaimed a National Monument in Las Tunas.
The municipality is known as the Blue Villa of the Windmills (Villa Azul de los Molinos) due to the large amount of these contraptions that existed and are still preserved in the city.
The area also features a beautiful sculptured ensemble of Don Quijote de la Mancha, as well as a beautiful seawall (malecón), some 600 metres in length, together with a spring of fresh water in the sea, which is surprising due to the sweetness of its waters.
La Loma Fortress, Puerto Padre
The antique and preserved military building, raised around the late XIX century, located at the riverside of Las Tunas City’s Bay, 700 kms far from the Cuban capital. The architectural structure was raised with limestone, quicklime and a sort of clay that is very abundant in the region and some specialists think it is much alike to constructions from Sahara Desert, in Africa than those conceived by the Spaniards during the domination performed in the island along the second half of this century.It is among the sites boasting the condition of National Monument and it is also part of the major tourist attractions from Puerto Padre Municipality.
LAS TUNAS
This city offers the visitor a well preserved historical quarter that was founded in 1759 and today is known as the city of the sculptures, since it exhibits some 70 monumental works, especially those by Rita Longa.
The vitality of its varied native culture, whose most faithful example can be seen in the celebration of the always welcome “Jornada Cucalambeana”, held in honour of Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo, "El Cucalambe", a poet of countryside tradition, who sings about the country’s beautiful landscape.
Each year the city is the seat of international magician encounters, an event teeming with renowned specialists in this art.
The Botanical Gardens located along the road that leads to El Cornito, is in development and borders the urban limits. The area designated to the Garden is some 112 hectares of brown soil crossed by a bubbling stream and surrounded by El Cornito reservoir in its southern portion.
This is a beautiful city that proudly shows off its beautiful bay and the cleanliness of its streets.
Over 40 000 people inhabit this town that treasures beautiful history the most significant of which if the imposing Fortress on the Hill (Fuerte de la Loma) –today converted into a museum-, built in the XIX century by the Spanish colonialists in the highest part of the region, the first place proclaimed a National Monument in Las Tunas.
The municipality is known as the Blue Villa of the Windmills (Villa Azul de los Molinos) due to the large amount of these contraptions that existed and are still preserved in the city.
The area also features a beautiful sculptured ensemble of Don Quijote de la Mancha, as well as a beautiful seawall (malecón), some 600 metres in length, together with a spring of fresh water in the sea, which is surprising due to the sweetness of its waters.
The antique and preserved military building, raised around the late XIX century, located at the riverside of Las Tunas City’s Bay, 700 kms far from the Cuban capital. The architectural structure was raised with limestone, quicklime and a sort of clay that is very abundant in the region and some specialists think it is much alike to constructions from Sahara Desert, in Africa than those conceived by the Spaniards during the domination performed in the island along the second half of this century.It is among the sites boasting the condition of National Monument and it is also part of the major tourist attractions from Puerto Padre Municipality.
This city offers the visitor a well preserved historical quarter that was founded in 1759 and today is known as the city of the sculptures, since it exhibits some 70 monumental works, especially those by Rita Longa.
The vitality of its varied native culture, whose most faithful example can be seen in the celebration of the always welcome “Jornada Cucalambeana”, held in honour of Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo, "El Cucalambe", a poet of countryside tradition, who sings about the country’s beautiful landscape.
Each year the city is the seat of international magician encounters, an event teeming with renowned specialists in this art.
The Botanical Gardens located along the road that leads to El Cornito, is in development and borders the urban limits. The area designated to the Garden is some 112 hectares of brown soil crossed by a bubbling stream and surrounded by El Cornito reservoir in its southern portion.