By Caribe Insider 18-02-2019 The capital of Ecuador has charming places and is a tourist destination par excellence that each year registers a greater number of visitors. It is located on the Guayllabamba basin on the eastern slopes of the active stratovolcano Pichincha, in the western part of the Andes. Among the places of interest is El Panecillo, a natural elevation at 3,000 meters above sea level, located in the very heart of Quito. It is crowned by a giant aluminum sculpture of the "Virgen de Quito", created by the Spaniard Agustin de la Herran Matorras, who was based on the work ....

By Editorial Staff Caribe Insider The city' s airs from the time of the Spanish colonization can still be breathed in Camagüey, founded 505 years ago as part of the Seven Villas that Hispanics discovered in Cuba in the 16th century. It was baptized with the name of Santa Maria del Puerto del Príncipe and was founded on February 2, 1514, in a coastal town on the shores of the northern bay of Nuevitas, which at that time was named Punta de Guincho, in the chiefdom of Mayanabo, coinciding with the site where Admiral Christopher Columbus had planted a cross earlier when ....

By Caribbean Insider 08-01-2019 A special spell has Villa de la Santisima Trinidad, as you retrace the streets of stones of bald Chinese in its historic center you feel that incomparable sensation of being in a place stopped in time. That is why many travelers prefer it as a tourist destination and are captivated by its heritage values with 505 years, dating from the time of its founding in 1514. It is part of the list of the Seven Villages of Cuba, founded by the Spaniard Diego Velázquez, who in December 1513 sent to explore that territory with an indigenous population formed by ....

By Caribe Insider 17-12-2018 If you visit Havana, Cuba's first City Tourist Destination, which in 2019 will be 500 years old, there will be some places or shows that you should not overlook among your priorities, such as the canyon shot that sounds every night at 9 p.m. in the Cuban capital. Because that is already a tradition and if the cannon fire did not sound it would be something like losing one of the big city's identity. It is said that only once did it stop ringing and that was back in the last century, when the Second World War was taking ....

For Caribbean Insider 5-12-2018 The presentation of the World Travel Awards 2018, in its 25th edition, as the Best Tourist Attraction to Machu Pichu, an ancient Inca city whose name means old mountain, strengthens the privileged position of this historic site, but also touristic, visited by thousands of travelers annually. Also recognized as one of the seven new wonders of the modern world and declared a World Heritage in 1983, this archaeological jewel-built in the mid-15th century-is estimated to have been one of the residences of the ninth Inca of the Tahuantinsuyo, Pachacutec. Its name refers to the place where it is located ....