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Cardenas
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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.
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 10 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. |
To
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Parque
Colon
Av de Cespedes
e/ Calle 8 y 9
- The site where the city's official founding took place.
Since 1962 it features the Columbus Monument, modeled by Spanish
sculptor Jose Piquer, and forged in bronze in marseille, France.
Near it is the building where for the first time the Cuban
national flag was hoisted. |
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Plaza
Molocoff
Nice to see is the "Plaza Molocoff "
Daily vegetable market
Av 3 Oeste y Calle 12 |
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Arrechabala
Rum Factory
Fábrica Arrechabala: To the northwest of Cárdenas,
Matanzas is this rum factory where Varadero and Bucanero rums
are distilled. The Havana Club rum company was founded here
in 1878. |
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Catedral
de la Inmaculada Concepcion
If you are lucky its open |
The
Parroquial (Parish) Church
It is considered to be Cardenas' first neoclassical
building, and dates back from 1846, when it opened under the
advocacy of the most Holy Virgin of Conception
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Museo
Casa Natal de Jose Antonio Echeverria
Av 4 Este #560 - Home of Cuban student leader Jose Antonio Echevarria,
who was assasinated on March 13th, 1957 by the repressive of
dictator Fulgencio Batista. Built in 1873, the house also stands
out for its state of preservation and its architectural values. |
Museo
de Oscar de Maria Rojas
The nature historical "Museo de Oscar de Maria Rojas" Calzada
de Vives Parque Echeverria at Av 4 Este y Calle 12 - An
ancient institution that houses several very complete, valuable
collections in the fields of history, arts, natural scienes,
archelogy, numismatics, and colonial weaponry.
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Paladars
(Restaurants)
Cubanitas Cárdenas
Comidas ligeras
Calzada y Ruiz, Cárdenas
Tel:+53 45 2145
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Nightlife
The nightlife
of Cardenas is very simple for most Cardeneses, just at home
playing domino or watching TV. For the younger people there
are 1 or 2 bars to have fun.
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Handy
Cardenas Addresses
Date: 03-06-2009
Author: Maybel
Country: Canada |
I look forward to one day visiting and staying there. I met a few cubans working varadero who are from Cardenas... they were extremely nice, generous, happy, and spoke english very well![ICON11] so i look forward to one day spending some time there-if there are casa particulares of course!
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Date: 08-04-2009
Author: yvette
Country: Quebec, Canada |
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Bonjour, je m'excuse si j'écris en français mais c'est plus facile pour moi. Cela fait 10 ans que je vais à Cardenas et je suis tombé en amour avec cette ville. Elle me rappelle ma jeunesse ou tous les gens s'asseoient sur le seuil de la porte et te salue. La chaleur humaine de ces gens est très agréable, la ville bouge sans arrêt, c'est très sécuritaire, beaucoup de parcs et d'architecture qui te font apprécier cette ville. Je pourrais en parler longuement mais tout ça pour vous dire que cela vaut la peine de la visiter et d'y vivre. J'adore y vivre
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Date: 19-03-2009 08:33:42 PM
Author: Pan
Country: Canada |
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Nice city, very friendly people, kids are polite, only stayed for a few hours
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Date: 11-03-2009
Author: Jeanette
Country: Canada |
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Had a beautiful guided tour of Cardenas. Very interesting city. Make sure to see cemetery. Amazing!
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Date: 24-01-2009
Author: yves
Country: canada |
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best place on earth wow, nice people, relax place, funny place, would move there today if i could
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Date: 10-08-2008
Author: evelyn
Country: USA |
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Absolutely beautiful! Well, you MUST see beyond the rundown buildings and dirty streets. You can tell that it was a beautiful in its days. Architecture is beautiful. It’s also to see how amazing the people are. They have NOTHING and yet are so generous!! I loved our visit. Lol...we actually went when it was mosquito season--(May/June) besides that, we will return!
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