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Activities include scuba diving for everyone from beginner to professionals, sunning, swimming, seafaris, visits to beautiful Punta Frances Beach, excursions to other places in the area, trips to Nueva Gerona and to the black sand beaches on the northern coast, and visits to Havana and Cayo Largo.

The Isle of Youth, the second largest island in the Cuban archipelago, is famous for its citrus fruit, its marble quarries, the black-sand beaches on its northern coast and the excellent white-sand beaches on its southern coast. There are important artistic and handicrafts movements, fascinating stories about buried treasure and a large infrastructure of services.

The Punta del Este caves are one of the island's main attractions. One of them descibed as the "Sistine Chapel of the Caribbean Rupestrian Art"- contains more than 200 aboriginal pictographs.

The island also has a large ecological preserve, with thick forest of tropical trees. A high proportion of the flora (which includes carnivorous plants) is endemic. The fauna includes large colonies of parrots, iguanas and wild boars.

The former Model Prison-now a museum-is where several generations of Cuban revolutionaries were imprisoned. They included Fidel Castro and his comrades, after their attack on the Moncada Garrison in 1953. Lanier Swamp has a crocodile-breeding center.

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Casa Natal de Jesús Montané Oropesa

Musem
24, esq. a 45, Nueva Gerona, Cuba


Cerro de los Murciélagos

Monument
Carretera de la cantera de Santa Isabel, Cuba


Cueva de Finlay

Monument
Camino Cocodrilo, Punta Francés, Cuba


Cueva del Indio

Monument
Camino Cocodrilo, Punta Francés, Cuba


Ferry El Pinero

Musem
33, e/. 26 y 28, Nueva Gerona, Cuba


Galería de Arte

Gallery
Calle 39, esq. a 26, Nueva Gerona, Cuba


Museo de Ciencias Naturales

Museum
Calle 41 #4625, Carretera de Siguanea, Nueva Gerona, Cuba


Museo Finca El Abra

Museum
Carretera de Siguanea, km. 0,5, Cuba


Museo de la Lucha Clandestina

Museum
Calle 24, e/ 43 y 45, Nueva Gerona, Cuba

About the underground struggle against Batista


Museo Presidio Modelo

Museum
Reparto Chacón, Nueva Gerona, Cuba


Museo Principal

Museum
Calle 30, e/ Calle 37 y 39, Nueva Gerona, Cuba

Historical collection


Solapa No. 1, Puerto Francés

Monumento
Camino Cocodrilo, Punta Francés, Cuba


Solapa No. 2, Caleta Grande

Monument
Camino Cocodrilo, Punta Francés, Cuba


Solapa No. 3, Caleta Grande

Monument
Camino Cocodrilo, Punta Francés, Cuba


Taller de Cerámica Artística

Gallery
Calle 37, esq. a 24, Nueva Gerona, Cuba

 

 

 

 

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