It begins to be treated as curiosity, and in fact it does not stop being so, that in a relatively small circle to the center of Cuba three of the nine Cultural Patrimonies of Humanity are located in this country. They are Trinidad and its neighboring Valle de los Ingenios, as well as the Historic Centers of Cienfuegos and Camagüey, respectively. They are cities with a long tourist tradition and infrastructure to make a stay without any inconvenience. The three differ from each other, which provides more interest to a walk that, to be more complete, should not exclude two other points, such as Sancti Spíritus and Remedios, National Monument cities.

Outstanding sites of Cienfuegos are El Prado and Parque Martí, with the Tomás Terry Theater, the Purísima Concepción Cathedral, the Ferrer Palace and a Caribbean replica of the Arc de Triomphe, as well as the beautiful peninsula of Punta Gorda that gives the landscape of an immense, clean, decontaminated and luminous bay through an avenue flanked by mansions with a gold closure: the Hotel Jagua and the unique Palacio de Valle, almost incredible Mudejar luxury so far from the Alhambra in Granada.

For its part, Trinidad is perhaps the most relevant and internationally publicized icon of Cuban colonial cities. Its streets are still boulders today and the houses built between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remain the shelter of most of the families and residents of this ancient town, trapped between the mountains of the Guamuaya Range and the Caribbean Sea. Don’t miss the Plaza Mayor and the set of surrounding buildings – a jewel -, the Cantero Palace and, above all, walk its streets and handicraft markets, admiring the Trinitarian windows, the houses of thick mortar and adobe walls painted with pastel colors. They were built for eternity.

On the outskirts, like a large open-air sugar archeological hall, is the Valle de los Ingenios, famous for its Manaca Iznaga Tower, also Cultural Heritage of Humanity. On the way to the north, Sancti Spíritus will appear first, capital of the province of the same name and where access from Trinidad is saved through the Yayabo bridge, the only one with vaulted arches in the purest European medieval style that exists throughout Cuba. Of particular interest are the Parroquial Mayor, an important example of religious architecture of the 17th century, as well as the nearby Serafín Sánchez park, in the historic center.
Almost on the northern coast of the center of the Island, in the province of Villa Clara, there is the typical city of Remedios, the eighth founded by the Spaniards on the Island and which becomes the prelude to the spectacular tourist offer of sun and Beach of the north of this province, joined to the mainland by a road over the sea.

Moving eastward, you reach the city of Camagüey, some 263 kilometers distant, recognized by UNESCO in 2008 as Cultural Heritage of Humanity, with merits and great endorsement. The passage of the centuries is immediately perceived and the most admirable for any visitor is an immense set of places to see, places to hang out, people to talk to, eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century churches, convoluted and concurrent streets, which at any time of the day they have a shadow side and that is the path through which all itineraries are made, in the hot summer months.
There is no need for guides, or notions of architecture, or great knowledge: Camagüey is unique and unrepeatable and the incontestable synthesis of that statement is found in the Plaza San Juan de Dios, one of the most original and best preserved colonial complexes in Latin America