By Caribe Insider At 58 kilometers from the Cuban capital, there is a protected environment where biodiversity and natural and historical values are taking care of; which give this area,on the whole, attractive recreational facilities capable of pleasing the most demanding tourist. On this place is located Las Terrazas Tourist Complex, at Sierra del Rosario, declared by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve in 1985. That place offers a unique product, which allows ecological or nature tourism and the adventure slope, through mountains that is home for more than one hundred species of birds, many of them migratory, that nest in that region ....

Cienfuegos, the city in the south-central part of Cuba which is among the favorite tourist destinations on the island, celebrates this April 22nd 200 years since its foundation by Don Luis De Clouet, in the name of His Majesty the King of Spain. D'Clouet, together with French settlers, founded Colonia Fernandina de Jagua, the embryo of what is today the beautiful city, which already in 1824 had 255 houses and 1,283 inhabitants. An article in the U.S. daily The Boston Globe, published a few years ago, first included the city of Cienfuegos among its recommendations to readers about the most suggestive places ....

El Callejon de Hamel, located in Aramburu and Hospital streets, is a very picturesque place in Havana, a charming city, where rumba is danced and the traditions of syncretic cults are appreciated. In this place, folklore beats, traditions are consolidated and the Afro-Cuban cult manifests itself in all its magnitude, which is why tourists interested in these cultural expressions choose it as part of their tours around the Cuban capital. Its name is related to the US citizen of Franco-German origin Fernando Belleau Hamel, who established a foundry and raw material business there and won the sympathies of his employees due to ....

Charm, mysteries and astonishment have shaken nationals and foreigners in Havana throughout its almost 500 years of history, enriched by ancestral traditions and customs, the beauty of its surroundings and its patrimonial assets, unleash incurable nostalgia with remoteness. Among those symbols around which many legends have been woven is one that dates back to the seventeenth century. What is La Giraldilla and what does it mean? Many visitors to Havana's Villa de San Cristobal are wondering for many reasons. This slender image is considered the most representative symbol of the city made by the Havana sculptor Jeronimo Martin Pinzon. Don Juan Bitrian Viamonte, governor ....

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 ....