Matanzas To Do |
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Matanzas is an interesting city and the surroundings in Matanzas even more. Below a list of things to do when you are staying in Matanzas. Many of the nature activities are also possible to book at your tour agent in Varadero.
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Cuevas
de Bellamar
Ciudad de Matanzas
You can make a reservation
for this excursion at the touristdesk of your hotel in Varadero.
Costs are about 30 CUC
A
visit to one of the largest caves of Cuba, with a very interesting
history and beauty. After the caves you will visit Matanzas
city, the city of bridges, with its main squares, the pharmaceutical
museum, the agricultural market. |
Reviews Cuevas Bellamar
Name: Rafael
Country: Spain
Matanzas
Bellamar is one of the main tourist attractions. It’s a cave 40 meters deep and 750 meters long. It’s quite humid and hot… but it’s great! There are tons of light, so you can actually see around… it’s beautiful.
The bad thing is that they charge you 5 CUC to get in… and another 5 CUC to take your camera with you. If you have a small camera, just hide it in your pocket… once you’re in, there’s no control.
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Museo
Farmacéutico
Museo
Milanés #4951
Its founders, doctors
Ernest Triolet y Juan Fermin de Figueroa, opened a French
pharmacy at January 1th 1982, and started after what has now
become a valuable collection of the original porcelain bottles
and containers, kept on hard wood shelves, together with a
large set of mid 19th century laboratory objects and tools. |
| It includes more than one million prescriptions with original
formulas for the preperations of natural medications. The
collection is said to be the most important exhibit of its
kind outside od France. |
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Museo
Memorial “El Morrillo”
Km. 1,5
Canimar
Built upon request by
prominent local landowners, it was completed in the second
decade of the 18th century. In 1975 it was fully renovated,
then in 1991 it was proclaimed a National monument. |
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Museo
de Arte de Matanzas
Contreras #36
Matanzas |
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Plaza
de la Libertad
Matanzas' second most important colonial plaza, it dates back
from 1800. Overlooking are the Sala White, a theater constructed
in 1863 in tribute to famous violinist Jose White; the Triolet
Pharmaceutical Museum; and the Government House, built in 1853. |
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Plaza
de La Vigía
Centro Histórico Urbano
Magdalena
e/ Milanés
y Río
Original Urban core,
around which the city was later expanded. In its surroundings
are important buildings like Teatro Sauto, Museo Palacio de
Junco, and the firefighter station, among others. |
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Teatro
“Sauto”
Magdalena
e/Milanés y Medio
A neo-classical architectural
jewel, of outstanding acoustic characteritics, founded on
April 6th, 1863. It was proclaimed a national Monument in
1978, and has served as seasonal venue for ballet, opera,
zarzuela, concert, music, variety shows, and drama. It is
considered one of the most important cultural institutions
in Latin America. |
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Casa de José
Jacinto Milanés
Museum
Milanés
e/Jovellanos y Matanzas
Matanzas |
Cueva
Grande
De Santa Catalina
Monument
Matanzas |
Cayo Jorajuría
Monument
Martí
Matanzas |
Casa de Miguel Failde
Pérez
Museum
Velarde #95
Matanzas
The
first person to play a Danzon at the Matanzas Lyceum was young
clarinet player Miguel Failde Perez, who on the 1st of January,
1879, directed his typical band of wind instruments, playing
his composition called Las alturas de Simpson (Simpson Heights),
which is a very popular neighborhood in that city founded
in 1693. He thus opened a new chapter in Cuban music. The
band was integrated by a trumpet, a trombone, an ophicleide
(figle), two clarinets, two violins, a bass, kettledrums and
guiro.
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Cueva de Simpson
Monument
Matanzas |
Cueva
de la Melodía
Sistema Cavernario Bellamar
Monumento
Matanzas |
Museo de los
Bomberos
Institución
Plaza de la Vigía
Matanzas |
Castillo de
San Severino
Carretera
del Puerto
Zona Franca
Its dimension place
it among the largest Spanish fortresses in the Americas. Perched
on the western side of the Matanzas bay, it was acompleted
in 1734 with the aim of protecting trade in the area, while
also guarding the eastern flank of Havana against pirate attacks.
It is a National Monument.
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Museo Provincial
(Palacio de
Junco)
Museum
Milanés, e/Magdalena y Ayllón
Matanzas |
Santa Iglesia Catedral
San Carlos Borromeo
286 No. 8304, e/83 y 85
Matanzas |
Segunda Plaza
de Armas
Park
Ayuntamiento, e/Milanés y Contreras
Matanzas |
Monserrat Hermitage
In spired on
a temple of similar name in Catalonia, Spain, it was completed
in 1872.
It has four statues, representing the four Catalonian regions;
Lerida, Gerona, Tarragona, and Barcelona, and commands a complete
view of Matanzas city and the Yumuri valley.
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Valle del Yumurí
Monument
Valle del Yumurí
Matanzas
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