Location: Santiago de Cuba
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Entertainment can be experienced in a variety of ways in Santiago de Cuba. Your ears may find comfort in the Casa de Las Tradiciones, a venue of the Trivoli neighborhood where Cuba's finest musicians gather for improvisation; your mouth, in Paladar Salon Tropical, where mainstays of the national cuisine arrive in generous portions; your eyes, in the Jardin de Los Helechos, home to a floral explosion of 90 types of orchids and 350 types of ferns.The gentile Tivolí district, some of Santiago de Cuba's most exciting ensembles, singers and soloists take turns improvising. Friday nights are reserved for straight-up, classic trova, à la Ñico Saquito and the like.
Restaurants in Santiago de Cuba
1. Shago Tours
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5.0 based on 38 reviews
A team of Passionate and enthusiastic local guides offering a selection of the best private tours in Santiago de Cuba.
2. Cubavibes
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5.0 based on 6 reviews
Cubavibes offers the ideal opportunity to escape the routine of the standard tour, proposes a varied selection of the best tours in relation to the existant market. We open the horizons so that visitors who choose us feel part of us.
3. Casa de las Tradiciones
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5.0 based on 51 reviews
Reviewed By Wytham - Oxford, United Kingdom
Do not miss this place! Total heaven for music lovers. Small and intimate with different live bands starting at about 21:00. The place is a little out of the centre, but it makes for a very atmospheric walk there and back (even though the back- streets are dark and have lots of people hanging around they are completely safe: we walked to the venue and back on 3 consecutive nights and felt no threat whatsoever - quite the opposite- we loved It!). You have to pay 2 CUC to get in but it's really worth it, with good drinks service from friendly staff. The atmosphere was so wonderful with a good mixture of a few tourists and plenty of locals. If you want to dance, just do it! There are local male and female dancers to accompany you if you are by yourself or your partner is shy! This place was a highlight of our tour.
4. Out Of The Box Tours
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5.0 based on 86 reviews
We are firm believers that to say that you’ve been somewhere, you need to experience everything it has to offer. Our tours focus on the natural beauty, history and the magic of the true Cuban experience. More importantly, we offer tours that are 100% customizable, both before you fly, and on the fly. We'll build the tour for you!
5. Viajes Vintage
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5.0 based on 36 reviews
Viajes Vintage is an agency that offers the tourist that arrives our Island, the opportunity of enjoying an unforgettable stay offering a combination of joy, knowledge and comfort. Showing Cuba from within is the aim of our tour guide experts who know every and each part of the Island. Each excursion, means an experience of interrelationship among persons with a special and an intimate service
6. Diego Velazquez Museum
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4.5 based on 297 reviews
Reviewed By 227ianc - London, United Kingdom
The museum is in fact two houses joined together. At the front is the oldest house in Santiago de Cuba - some say in Cuba itself, constructed from 1516 to 1530 for the governor Diego Velazquez, with historic Mudejar-style interiors; it is then connected to a later house at the rear to create a substantial museum which displays Cuban furniture and decorative arts from the 16th century onwards, in rooms which have been sensitively restored. Definitely worth visiting both for the architecture and for the collections on display. There is also a furnace previously used to make gold ingots. from a time when the building was used as a 'House of Transactions'. The assistants are helpful in explaining things, though generally in Spanish.
7. Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca
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4.5 based on 1,038 reviews
Reviewed By Vallero - Deep River, Canada
An impressive fortress built to protect the entrance to the Santiago harbour that has been restored to its original splendour. Beyond a doubt it is a must see location when visiting the city.
8. Casa de La Trova
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4.5 based on 242 reviews
Reviewed By 453aleksandars - Toronto, Canada
They say that there is no musician in Cuba that did not play here. There is matinee at 6 PM and evening show at 9 PM. I've been both. Crazy place. Fantastic music and everybody dancing. I Could go there every evening. Right in the center of Santiago.
9. La Gran Piedra (The Big Rock)
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4.5 based on 372 reviews
Reviewed By Vallero - Deep River, Canada
The view from the top of La Gran Piedra is amazing, but more interesting is how the climate changes from tropical to pine forests as you ascend the mountain. All in all it is a beautiful location. In addition to the mountain itself there is a restored 18th century coffee plantation to visit and a spectacular botanical garden nearby. There are more than than 400 stairs from the parking area to the top of the rock. It is not a mountain climb but be prepared for a bit of exercise.
