Punta Frances Beach, Isla de la Juventud. Cuba

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• Isla de la Juventud. Archipiegalo de los Canarreos. Cuba
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• Destination: Isla de la Juventud

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The beach is called Latrobe after a French pirate who often plied his trade in the calm waters of Punta Frances. In 1809, Latrobe attacked and captured two Spanish galleons that were laden with gold and jewels. Latrobe buried the massive amount of treasure on the island but was later captured by the United States military and taken to Kingston, Jamaica. The vast amount of treasure has never been found A remote paradise, Punta Frances is popular with the more adventurous tourists. It is off the beaten track but once there, everyone falls in love with the resort, its people and the beauty of the sea. And, perhaps lying in the sand, there may be a gold doubloon or one of the pieces of eight from the Spanish galleons.

Punta Frances Beach is located in Isla de la Juventud

Also called "the island of a thousand names" because of the many names it has had since Christopher Columbus discovered it and called it La Evangelista. The Indians called it Camargo, Guanaja and Siguanea. Governor Diego Velazquez called it Santiago.

Others have called it Treasure Island (because it was where Robert Louis Stevenson set his famous novel); Cotorras (Parrot) Island, because of the abundance of parrots there; and the Isle of Pines. In the 1970s, because of the many schools in the countryside that were built there, its name was officially changed to Isle of Youth.

It is the second largest island in the Cuban archipelago (2,357 square km. - 910 square miles). Its many attractions include the Punta Frances National Marine Park, Bibijagua Beach, the Los Indios-San Felipe Natural Preserve, the pictographs in Punta del Este caves, the Colony International Scuba-Diving Center, El Abra Farm and the "Model" Prison.

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