City Guide:
SANTA CLARA is Che Guevara's City.
Prepared to kill for “New Cuba”, young lieutenant Ernesto Che Guevara aimed to capture the city of Santa Clara. This placed the city at the center of bloodshed and introduced it to the pages of history as the home of one of the largest of revolutionary battles - the Battle of Santa Clara.
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The victory at Santa Clara contributed to more than Ché Guevara's reputation as a military genius, but shaped the entire city around his personality. Today Santa Clara houses a mausoleum with the remains of Che Guevarakilled in 1967 during the Bolivia campaign.
Other attractions include;
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Mission Santa Clara de Asis, a historic mission founded in 1777
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California's Great America, a theme park of Santa Clara with the best water rides
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Intel Corp and Museum, geared for teenagers and on it includes exhibitions on computer systems, articles, wafers
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The De Saisset Museum, a home to historic relics of the Santa Clara and art collections from ancient to modern
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Triton Museum of Art houses extensive art collections by local artists
From its very early years Santa Clara was developed for its strategic location. The city is at the gateway to all of Cuba, so on a visit to Santa Clara, you see all this country has to offer. Today Santa Clara sits at the main highway in the area and features an excellent railroad infrastructure. In addition to modern connections, the city earned the role of college town with the la Universidad Central de las Villas.
It means the city brims with fun opportunities, so it will keep you occupied with its colonial architecture of Remedios and sandy beaches of la Cayería del Norte. If you are a night owl then there are plenty of things to do from bar-hopping, clubbing and watching sunsets in the unparalleled Cuban environment.
In Santa Clara you should pay attention to more than its cultural flavor, this city is the capital of Villa Clara province with about 250,000 people living in it. In recent years a few processing plants arrived in the area that making Santa Clara full of both business and culture.
Whether you like this city for its modern outlook or special relation to Ché Guevara, Santa Clara can become unforgettable experience with Booked.net.
