Cardenas City, Matanzas. Cuba
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- Cardenas. Matanzas, Cuba
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- Destination: Matanzas
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Cárdenas, The city where most people live who work in Varadero. Famous about its name "La Ciudad del Cangrejos" (city of the crabs). Narrow streets full of horse-drawn carriages, and not anymore what it was used to be in the earlier years
Famous city of Elian Gonzalez 20 km south of Varadero next to the oil platforms "Bahia de Cardenas" A city with about 75.000 inhabitants If you take a close look at the Cardenas map you will find out that this city is well structured. Lots of foreigners are living in this city, and a lot of the people of Cardenas are working in tourism in Varadero.
Varadero hotels and resorts
Cardenas is known as the Flag city. On May 19th, 1850, the Cuban national flag waved here for the first time, atop the building of the La Dominica Hotel.
Barely 15 km from Varadero Cardenas, a small harbor town founded on March 8th, 1828, which is also the site of the first statue built in honor of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, in 1826. Cardenas' pioneering condition also extends to electric public light, as the city was the first to use this utillity in Cuba, in 1889.
Cardenas has a long railway tradition, and is also known for its deep rooted love for horse drawn coaches and bicycles. The long straight, tidy city streets are lined with buildings of several architectural styles, even some of the early 19th century military fortresses that made up then the city's defense ring.
Cardenas City Map
Cardenas City is located in Matanzas
For over two centuries, in recognition of its rich cultural life, Matanzas has been known as "Cuba's Athens." For obvious reasons, it is also called "the city of bridges.",
The city was founded on the shores of a beautiful bay in 1693. At that time, it was called San Carlos y San Severino de Matanzas. Its splendid buildings are eclectic in style.,
The area surrounding the city has some singularly beautiful features. The Pan de Matanzas (Matanzas Bread Loaf) Hill and the Yumurí Valley are particularly entrancing. Places to visit in the city include the Sauto Theater, the Triolet Drug Store and the San Carlos Church.,
Immortalized by painters, poets and musicians, Matanzas is just a few minutes' drive from Varadero Beach and near the Zapata Peninsula.,
The city of Matanzas, capital of the province of the same name, is in northwestern Cuba, 100 km. (62 miles) east of Havana and around 18 minutes from Varadero Beach. An excellent highway links Matanzas with the nation's capital.
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“typical cuban town with many horse-drawn carriages & zero tourists ”
In the late 19th century and early 20th Century, CĂ¡rdenas was one of the main sugar-exporting towns of Cuba. The city is special because it is not being laid out in the traditional central-plaza Spanish custom, but rather, inspired on a North American grid pattern, modeled on the city of Charleston, USA. There are almost zero tourists and this town... More
“Steam Train ”
You just have to make a stop at Cardenas sugar cane plant and take a ride on the steam train just fantastic, they also provide lunch by the ocean at a restaurant beautiful view of the ocean and varadero in the background. Cardenas is also a venetian city and beautiful building to look at.
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