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4 HOW TO USE THIS E-BOOK Getting around the e-book This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Cuba, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editor s Choice categories of activies and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Cuba. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, hotels, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip. In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information. Maps All key attractions and sights in Cuba are numbered and cross-referenced to highquality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view. Images You ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Cuba. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen. About Insight Guides Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs. Insight Guides are written by local authors who use their on-the-ground experience to provide the very latest information; their local expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to stay and eat, so you can be confident that 4

5 when we say a restaurant or hotel is special, we really mean it. Like all Insight Guides, this e-book contains hundreds of beautiful photographs to inspire and inform your travel. We commission most of our own photography, and we strive to capture the essence of a destination using original images that you won t find anywhere else Apa Publications (UK) Ltd 5

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8 Table of Contents How To Use This E-Book Cuba s Top 10 Attractions Editor s Choice Introduction: The Isolated Island The Cubans Decisive Dates Conquistadores and Pirates The Struggle Against Colonialism The Age of Decadence The Revolution Socialism or Death Cuba in the 21st Century Beliefs and Religions Dreaming of Miami Insight: Cuba s Transportation System Tourism: Salvation or Sellout? Cuba s Sizzling Sound The Arts The Essence of Cuban Food Sport 8

9 Introduction: Places Old Havana Insight: Cuba s Colonial Architecture Centro Habana and Vedado Around Havana Viñales and the West Insight: Secrets of the Cuban Cigar Varadero and Matanzas The Zapata Peninsula Insight: Bird Bonanza Santa Clara to Sancti Spíritus Cienfuegos and Trinidad Eastern Lowlands Insight: Dream Diving Holguin and Granma Santiago de Cuba Around Santiago Baracoa and the Far East Southern Islands Transportation Accommodations Activities 9

10 A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information Understanding the Language Further Reading 10

11 CUBA S TOP 10 ATTRACTIONS From wonderful views and heroic sights to colonial architecture and great music venues, here at a glance are Cuba s greatest attractions. 11

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13 Plaza de la Revolución, Havana. Imagine the crowds, thousands deep, listening to one of Fidel s former eight-hour May Day speeches, standing in the scorching heat on the acres of asphalt overlooked by General Batista s monolithic government buildings. For more information, click here. Sylvaine Poitau/Apa Publications 13

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15 Trinidad. A Unesco World Heritage Site, this is one of the most beguiling towns in Cuba, a place of great architectural interest, full of atmosphere and color and throbbing with music. For more information, click here. Sylvaine Poitau/Apa Publications 15

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17 Museo Nacional Palacio de Bellas Artes (Arte Cubano), Havana. A magnificent collection of 20th-century Cuban art can be seen here, tracing the development of styles from pre- to post-revolutionary painting and sculpture. For more information, click here. Sylvaine Poitau/Apa Publications 17

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