Archive for the ‘Sancti Spíritus’ Category

Cuba Digital Media Giant Travelucion Courts Acquisition Offers

    Controlling a gigantic portion of Cuba related internet traffic has just become a unique commodity that the Cuba digital media corporation Travelucion is relishing. The company’s colossal group of 432 multilingual web properties seemingly dominating each and every internet search. Everything from the life of enigmatic American writer Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, to […]

Tripadvisor Gives Cuban Resort Worlds Best Status

  Vacation review giant Tripadvisor today announced the world’s highest ranked all-inclusive resort. What makes the accolade so important is not only that it’s the Cayo Santa Maria Royalton Hotel but, that the American company finally decided to give Cuban customer service a thumbs up and the prestigious title it deserves.The Cayo Santa Maria Royalton […]

FITCuba 2014

  On the 6th of May this year’s FITCuba will commence, once again held at the Morro Cabaña Castle in Havana Cuba, where it has been held for the past 9 years. Cuba’s annual MICE event is chaired by the top brass of the Ministry of Tourism or MINTUR. The Cuban tourism convention is designed […]

Cuba Hotel Reservation | Cuba eliminates hotel prepayments

    For over two decades Cuba has been one of the worlds few destinations where in order to receive a hotel confirmation, one had to prepay the whole stay, days, weeks or months in advance. Some visitors having prepaid thousands for a hotel stay in Cuba six months or more in advance. But not […]

Villa Ma Dolores

Villa Ma Dolores Trinidad Sancti Spiritus Address: Carretera Central Km 2.Trinidad [Show more information or Book It]

Kurhotel

This building literally stands out for its height amid the surrounding natural habitat. Its eight stories can be discerned from a distance in this mountainous terrain. Conceived as a hotel and health spa, the personnel on hand are specialized in medicine and nursing. The rooms afford a view of the Escambray Mountains and surrounding forests. […]

Villa Caburni

These lodgings are the starting point for one of the most attractive mountain excursions, to Salto Caburní waterfalls. The one- or two-story air-conditioned, Swiss chalet-style cabins are within a small park, in the mountain. The carpeta (reception desk) and restaurant are housed independently from the cabins and are both inviting and functional. There is a […]

Los Helechos

Situated atop a mountain 12 kilometers from Trinidad this hotel offers the perfect Ecotur type escape from the city. Its well appointed accommodations are divided into two separate blocks of apartments with a separate reception and lobby bar building. The restaurant is situated next to a mountain stream which is just two minutes from the […]

Carrusel Rancho Hatuey

It is located in a hospitable rural environment and offers its guests the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of open-air activities. It is 1.2 miles away from Sancti Spiritus's airport. Address: Carretera Central km. 383. [Show more information or Book It]

Hostal del Rijo/Plaza

The Inn, located in a house built between 1818 and 1827, has a typical colonial architectural style, French carpentry, color-stained glasses and iron-wrought railings. The lodge was recovered from the ruins of an old house that belonged to Rudesindo García Rijo, an illustrious doctor in the city. Address: Calle Honorato del Castillo No. 12 esq. […]

Villa San Jose del Lago

San Jose del Lago, the ideal place to enjoy intimate moments. The resort offers 30 air conditioned detached Cabins or cabanas and specializes in relaxation and alternative medicine vacations. The resort also offers a full gym with the ideal equipment plus acupuncture, digit puncture sessions, local, general massage and mud therapy with a local general […]

Villa Los Laureles

This large has nice grounds and facilities, and is located short (8km) 5 miles from the center of Sancti Spíritus. The hotel consists of 78 individual, "bungalows" or Cabanas with solar panels, set amid gardens and palm trees, with a large pool and baby pool. The rooms are decently furnished, although short of luxurious in […]

Hotel Zaza

This rural hotel offers 65 excellent air conditioned rooms. Guests can also go hunting at the nearby Sur del Jíbaro Game Reserve, which has migratory ducks, quails, white wing pigeons; long tail doves, white wing pigeons, guinea fowls, and pheasants, among other species. Ask our staff about the rental of arms and other equipment when […]

Hostal La Ronda

Located in the center of Trinidad, city museum of Cuba and Historical Patrimonio of the Humanity by its excellent conservation Address: Marti no 238, Trinidad, Cuba [Show more information or Book It]

Las Cuevas

95 air-conditioned cabanas, with private bath, satellite TV and telephone. Restaurant, snack bar, disco, mini-bar rental, safety deposit box, currency exchange, facilities for the handicapped, swimming pool, medical services, shop, unisex hairdresser’s, massage and body care, taxis, parking lot, tourist bureau, national and international telephone and rent-a-car. Address: Finca Santa Ana, Ciudad Trinidad, Cuba [Show […]

Sancti Spíritus History

Sancti Spíritus was one of the first seven towns founded by Spanish conqueror Diego Velázquez in the island. After the founding of Bayamo, the second town, he decided to build that of La Santísima Trinidad and another, which he would call Espíritu Santo (Holy Ghost), around 1514, becoming a new populated area in the site […]

Sancti Spíritus Geography

Province located in the central region of Cuba. It has an extension of 6 732,35 sq km (2600 sq mi) and an estimated population of 451 644 inhabitants (1996). The province ranks eighth in extension and twelfth in population. The relief presents a great diversity. In the northern section we find a narrow strip of […]

General History

Coming from the very heart of the American continent, from the Orinoco-Amazonas region, arrived the first inhabitants of the island. They called themselves Tainan and were more developed than the other two aborigines settlements: Guanahatabeyes and Siboneyes. Tainans were harvest people and hunters, their population was over 100 000 inhabitants. On October 27,1492 Admiral Christopher […]

General Geography

Cuba, the largest of the Antilles, is an archipelago consisting of a main island named Cuba, the Isle of Youth and about 4,195 keys and islets. Its elongated and narrow shape propitiates circulation of trade winds from the Atlantic, which cool its tropical, humid climate. Only one fourth of the land is mountainous being its […]

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