"Cienfuegos es la ciudad que
mas me gusta a mi" quoted the famous Cuba
musician Beny More.
Meaning Cienfuegos is the city the I like the
most, he was not wrong when he described in his
songs this city known also as the Pearl of the
South.
Cienfuegos is to the south central region of
the Island and enjoys unique tourism product,
whose main elements are its great nautical possibilities
and the richness of the historical and cultural
traditions that the "Cienfuegueros"
( a person born in Cienfuegos) have passed from
generation to generation; Cienfuegos being in
the central part of Cuba is an ideal place for
all the tourists that tour around Cuba.
Cienfuegos was founded by French settlers who
came from Burdeos, . According to history, the
colony of La Fernandina de Jagua owes its birth,
on April 22 of 1819, to Don Louis D'Clouet; it
became a Villa in 1829 and a City in 1880.
Small beaches washed by the Caribbean Sea, like
Rancho Luna and El Inglés are located on
the shores of the urban area, and constitute ideal
places for the practice of Scuba Diving; especially
in the stretch between the canal of the entrance
to the Bay of Jagua and Boca Ambuila, where, besides
the Notre Dame Column Coral (6 meters high and
named so because of its extraordinary structural
similarity to the famous Cathedral of Paris),
there are more than 50 diving sites for snorkeling
even around sunken ships.
To the east, the one hundred years old Botanical
Garden (National Monument) offers to visitors
an enormous collection of plants of nearly 1 450
species, out of which 80% are exotic, and bears
a collection of palm trees that is considered
among the 10 most important ones in the world.
Among the most important and beautiful buildings
found in Cienfuegos , Palacio del Valle , Jagua
Hotel and Teatro Tomas Terry are places that can
not escape from the visitor's attention.
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