Plaza Mayor Square, Trinidad. Cuba

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La Plaza Mayor, in the Historical Centre of Trinidad captivates everybody for the Terpsicore sculpture, the dance muse, the white railings with delicate filigrees, the elegant Royal Palms trees and two greyhound guardians. It is considered the second most significant square in the country, after Cathedral Square in Havana. In 1657, it was restored by the inhabitants, and became the main place for religious processions, patron saint festivities, promenades and commerce. In March 26, it was arranged with out and in-railings. In 1868, two cisterns were built. To finance the restoration of the square, a lottery game with gold ounces per card was foreseen. Thanks to the profits obtained, the current railing was manufactured in Philadelphia. The name of the square is to honor the Governor Serrano, who sponsored its construction. It's surrounded by the most luxury mansions of the city such as the Palace of Count Brunet, today the Romantic Museum When the German scholar Alexander von Humboldt—who visited the locality in 1801— walked around the Square, he said that Instead of having railings was having walls of flowered myrtles."

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Plaza Mayor Square is located in Trinidad

As if it were stagnant in time, Trinidad gives the visitor the extraordinary charms of a vivacious museum-city embedded between the sea and the mountain. Trinidad comprises an area of 1 165Km2 and it is located to the center-south of Cuba, facing the Caribbean Sea, in the mountainous skirts of Guamuahaya or Escambray Mountains, belonging to the province of Sancti Spíritus. You can get there by roads that connect it with the rest of the country, and it has an airport for small and medium size airplanes.

Proclaimed World Heritage by UNESCO in 1988, the old Villa de la Santísima Trinidad founded in the 16th century shows togeher with its multiple architectural values, a wealth of traditions and cultures where Hispanic and African traits are combined. A culture of craftsmanship and ceramics has been transmitted notably from generation to generation. In this area the gentle atmosphere of small cities reigns, where the creative capacity and their residents' wisdom have contributed to preserve from the past their most important values.

Together with historical and cultural values of the territory, the attractiveness of the mountainous Escambray area, its beaches and the beauties of its sea bottoms, as well as its people's hospitality, are the particular features of this city. Trinidad is one of those cities that invites you to travel all around them. Its museums, squares and stone-paved streets make it possible to go back in time. Once in the territory you are invited to know the symbolic Manaca- Iznaga Tower, from where you can see the Valley of the Sugar Mills; Ancón and María Aguilar beaches, Caburní Waterfall, the Cave of the Skulls and Zaza Lake, host of periodic trout fishing tournaments. To visit its nearby keys among which Key Blanco of Casilda stands out are of great interest for those who are keen in the art of deep diving.

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