La Alameda, Santiago de Cuba. Cuba

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La Alameda

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El Paseo la Alameda, nook of serenity to refresh at any moment, near to the famous bag bay in the city of Santiago de Cuba, it is not more than a tree walk, paved in some on their parts, in others of refined granite, with providing fountains and banks.
Paseo la Alameda, Clock

El Paseo La Alameda or La Alameda like it is called by the most of the inhabitants of the City of Santiago de Cuba, in fact is named La Alameda de Michaelsen, in honor of the German citizen Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Michaelsen.

It is located specifically in front of the port of the city, in the current Avenue named Jesus Menéndez and it’s extends from the street Calixto García until the street Aguilera, with a near extension to the 400 meters.

It was in 1830 when the idea arose, by the authorities part, of building a walk, but it didn't go up to 1859 that La Alameda was built and it was named Téllez, in honor to the governor Don Juan Téllez. Their grates, streets that end in her, diverse furniture and central fountain made of this corner a recess place and amusement for the age.

The weekends were the favorite ones for young ladies and gentlemen to go for a walk in their cars or on foot showing up clothes and hats.

From their creation El Paseo La Alameda has had several remodelings, the first one was in 1893, sponsored by the benefactor of the city Hermann Michaelsen, reason for which takes its name at the present time.

Although at one time it was meeting place for the society santiaguera, then it was decaying until in 1920 it was dilapidated. When the Doctor Desiderio Arnaz Alberni took possession of the Mayor's office, undertook the reconstruction with the help of the trade association and the town, so it was anew inaugurated La Alameda in July 25 1929.

The new project stood out for the presence of two Arches of Welcomes and a bigger bond of the public space with the sea. La Alameda's Clock or La Torre de Arnaz (as originally it was called in honor to the mayor of the moment that carried out the plan donated by the Chamber of Commerce of Santiago de Cuba), it was installed by the El Brillante Venero y Hermanos jewelry store, with the project proposed by the architect Antonio Bruna Danglad.

Today the image of El Paseo de La Alameda Michaelsen is because to the executed project by the mayor Luis Casero Guillén between 1949 and 1951. It preserve the sobriety and elegance of the environment with its refreshing fountain and big boulevards. Commemorative monuments were also erected to the memory of Hermann Michaelsen, and universal José Martí, among other.

In the adjoining road the traffic is alternated with cars thrown by horses and the modern public and private transportation of a city of almost half million of inhabitants. Important thoroughfares, modern shop and majestic buildings of principles of the XX century converge. This public space and their surroundings goes on being by the light of the XXI century, boulevard of preference of the santiagueros for the soft breeze, cozy atmosphere and landscape of the sea.

Mapa de La Alameda

La Alameda is located in Santiago de Cuba

It limits to the north with the province of Holguín; to the west with Granma; to the south with the Caribbean Sea, and to the east with the province of Guantánamo. The province covers a total area of 6 343 21 , Km². You can get here through Antonio Maceo International Airport, also by road from any other part of Cuba, or by sea ─in this last case, requesting the services from Punta Gorda Marina.

Two particular features characterizes Santiago de Cuba that make it exceptional: its hospitality, with people of happy and relaxed temperament and its rich historical-cultural wealth. Its Caribbean identity is evident in its popular music and in folklore manifestations. It depicts the title of Heroine City of the Republic of Cuba for the role carried out by its inhabitants in the revolutionary struggle during the decade of 1950. Privileged by its historical past, in Santiago de Cuba there are two of the Cuban places distinguished by UNESCO with the title of World Heritage: the San Pedro de la Roca Castle and the ruins of the first French coffee plantations in La Gran Piedra. The Santa Ifigenia cemetery , the 26 of July Historical Museum and the Siboney Farm, are places indissolubly linked to the history of Cuba.

Cayo Granma and Baconao Park (Biosphere Reserve) also part of the attractiveness of this region. As a tourist destination, Santiago de Cuba, combines excellent possibilities for the enjoyment of beaches, city and nature tourism for to the places of interest in those three scenarios.

For those who arrive in Santiago de Cuba, there are diverse lodging options in the city and in its surroundings, linked as much to the sea as to nature. With a variety of categories and levels of comfort, it will always be a guarantee for the visitors looking for harmony and soothing rest. There are other things, among so many, that make people from Santiago proud: to be the birthplace, par excellence, of almost all the musical genres of Cuba, a country where the music is soul and root; also, the carnivals that every month of July take place here, are the most spectacular in the country; as well as their rum, the well-known Fiestas del Fuego and the already traditional Festival of the Caribbean.

The region of Santiago de Cuba has the necessary infrastructure to encourage tourism of events and congresses; it also has in its mountainous and seafaring environment the conditions to develop nature and adventure tourism, trekking, nautical activities, and health tourism. But there is nothing better than walk its undulating and narrow streets loaded with history and music at the same time.