Location: Santiago de Cuba
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What to do and see in Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba Province: The Best Museums
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.
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1. Diego Velazquez Museum
Overall Ratings
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.
2. Galeria Rene Valdes
3. Memorial Vilma Espin Guillois
4. Emilio Bacardi Moreau Museum
5. Museo de la Lucha Clandestina
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 52 reviews
Reviewed By elisa-kz - Paris, France
Like in most museums in Cuba, you learn a lot about the history. I have nothing particular to say, just that it is worth a visit. I don't remember if the information is in English or in Spanish only, anyway it's better to speak a little bit if Spanish in this country, of course, because there are many things that are not translated or badly translated.
6. Museo del Carnaval
7. Museo del Ron
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3.5 based on 33 reviews
Reviewed By Looksmelltaste
El Museo del Ron has artifacts that date back to pre revolution Cuba. Rumor has it that Bacardi's original alembic is housed in the museum, besides that there are plenty of other artifacts, labels and rum tastings throughout. A must stop for the big rum connoisseur.
