Trinidad, located near the Caribbean Sea and part of the province of Sancti Spiritus, was founded in 1514 by the Spanish conquistador Diego Velazquez Consuelo de Cuellar.
Together with the valley of sugar factories (Valle de los Ingenios), Trinidad is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The city of Trinidad is a kind of "open-air museum" with its cobbled streets and colonial-style houses.
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How to get to Trinidad
At 1 km south of Trinidad, on the road to Casilda, is Alberto Delgado Airport, where only charter flights are operated. By taxi, you can reach Havana (cost 20 CUC) and the city of Sancti Spiritus, the capital of the same province (5 CUC).
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By train
Trinidad is not connected with the rest of Cuba by rail since the collapse of the bridge after the 1992 hurricane. Railway communication is carried out only in the valley of sugar refineries (Valle de los Ingenios). Every day at 09:30 from Trinidad depart trains that make a stop in Iznaga and Condado and follow up to Meyer. The return train from Meyer leaves at 13:00, which leaves a few hours to inspect the valley of the sugar factories. The fare in both directions is three convertible Cuban pesos (CUC).
By bus
Viazul buses depart twice a day from Havana with a stop in Cienfuegos and once a day from Santiago de Cuba with a stop in the cities of Holguin, Camagüey and Sancti Spiritus. Also, buses run from the resort town of Varadero with stops in Santa Clara and Cienfuegos (the bus departs at 07:30 from Varadero and returns at 14:25).
Climate
Clearly +26 ° С in the afternoon +24 ° С at night ° С water |
Clearly +25 ° С in the afternoon +24 ° С at night ° С water |
Clearly +25 ° С in the afternoon +23 ° С at night ° С water |
| Weather forecast in Trinidad (Cuba) for 10 days | ||
| Average monthly temperature, ° C | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| in the daytime | + 27 | + 27 | + 28 | + 29 | + 30 | + 31 | + 32 | + 32 | + 31 | + 31 | + 28 | + 27 |
| night | + 17 | + 16 | + 17 | + 19 | + 20 | + 21 | + 22 | + 22 | + 21 | + 21 | + 19 | + 17 |
| of water | + 25 | + 26 | + 27 | + 27 | + 28 | + 28 | + 29 | + 28 | + 27 | + 27 | + 26 | + 25 |
Throughout the year the thermometer is maintained at 29-33 degrees, at night the temperature drops to 19-23 degrees. The greatest amount of precipitation falls from May to October.
Shopping
Directly in front of the Casa de la Trova on Av Jesús Menéndez is an open market where you can buy souvenirs, fabrics and impressive hook-knitting wares. Another market, but already vegetable, is located at the corner of Pedro Zerquera and Manuel Fajardo and runs from 08:00 to 18:00 from Monday to Saturday and until 13.00 on Sundays.
Kitchen
Traditional Caribbean cuisine can be enjoyed in the Paladar Estela restaurant, located just above Plaza Mayor, where the specialty is Cordero (lamb). A specialty restaurant al Jigüe is a baked chicken.
Beaches
At 12 km from Trinidad begins the spit Ancon length of 6 km, overlooking the Caribbean Sea. Along the spit there are two best beaches of the southern coast of Cuba - Maria-Aguilar and Ancon.
300 m from the coast is the island of Cayo Blanco, to which is stretched a narrow platform with a sandy bottom and corals forming reefs and grottoes, where there are tropical fish, sponges and jellyfish. And the bay of Kasilda is ideal for diving and snorkeling.
Trinidad Entertainment, Trips and Attractions
In Trinidad, there are several first-class houses of music, called Casa de la Musica and located on Plaza Mayor, where every night the largest dance floors open. In addition, the Plaza Mayor is the center of the historic city, a UNESCO listed World Heritage Site. On the square you can see the buildings built in the 18-19th centuries, at a time when the slave trade and sugar production brought fabulous profits and contributed to the development of the city.
The colonial houses of Trinidad are characterized by typical tiled roofs, and the walls are supported by wooden beams. Above the square stands the Church of the Holy Trinity Iglesia Parroquial de la Santísima Trinidad, the construction of which was completed in 1892. The church houses a wooden statue of Jesus Christ of the 18th century. El Señor de la Vera Cruz. Here, not far away, is the "house of conspirators" La Casa de los Consipiradores, where the fighters gathered against the colonial dependence of Cuba from Spain, and a small area of Plazuela de Segarte with houses of the 18th century, the most impressive of which is Casa de la Trova, which is a concert hall
To the left of the church of the Holy Trinity is the Palacio Brunet, built in 1812 by José Mariano Borrell y Padrón. The palace now houses the Romantic Museum (Museo Romántico) with exhibits of objects belonging to the Borrell family. The palace has a central courtyard, an original marble floor, frescoes and ornaments in neoclassical style, and in the kitchen - clay tiles decorated by hand.
At the opposite end of the palace, on Calle Hernández Echerri Street, is the church and monastery of St. Francis Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco, now the museum of the fight against bandits Museo de la Lucha contra Bandidos. The gangsters in question were counter-revolutionaries who rushed into the nearby Sierra del Escambray mountains after the Cuban Revolution and fought against the government of Fidel Castro. The church was founded in 1813 by Franciscan monks, in 1848 became a parish church, and in 1895 it was transformed into a garrison for the Spanish troops.
On the east side of Plaza Mayor is the archaeological museum Museo de Arqueología Guamuhaya with a collection dedicated to the Indian tribes that lived here before Columbus, as well as exhibits telling about the conquest of Cuba by the Spaniards. On the opposite side of the square is the Museum of Colonial Architecture of Museo de Arquitectura Colonial with a collection of locks, doors, lattices and other architectural elements of houses typical of Trinidad of the past centuries. An interesting exhibit is a 1912 shower with a multitude of hot and cold water pipes.
In the lower part of the square is the house of the Mayor Casa de Aldemán Ortiz, built in 1809, which is a yellow two-story mansion with blue doors and windows and a wooden balcony with a breathtaking view of the square. The house was built for slaver Oritsa de Sunigi, who later became mayor of the city. Now there is an art gallery in the house.
Valley of sugar factories
At 12 km from Trinidad is the valley of the sugar factories Valle de los Ingenios, consisting of three interconnected valleys: San Luis, Santa Rosa and Meyer, from the end of 18 and up to the 18th century, the former center for the production of sugar .Although now most of the plants are only ruins, some houses on the plantations have survived .So, in Guachinango you can see the colonial house, and on Manaca Iznaga plantation - the master's house, the tower and barracones - the barracks where the slaves lived .A 45-meter-high tower was built in 1845 .the owner of the plantation Alejo Maria Iznaga y Borrell to observe the work of slaves, and the bell of the tower informed of the beginning and end of the working day .
Preserve Topes de Collantes
12 km from Trinidad is the national reserve Topes de Collantes, located in the mountains of Escambray (Sierra del Escambray). In the park there are rivers, waterfalls, caves, grottoes canyons, natural pools with crystal clear water, mountain hills. In the Topes de Collantes grow more than 40 species of local orchids and 100 species of ferns, and also grows about 40 types of coffee. The most popular route in the park is the trail that runs among the coffee plantations and leads to the Caburni waterfall, one of the highest in the country where the river breaks down from a height of 62 m. Photo by Trinidad (Cuba) (1)