The first known English settlement was built by shipwrecked British sailors in 1638. It was owned by Spain, but more and more British settlers arrived and in the area was annexed as a British colony became British Honduras.
HABANA 500: Ancient Colonial Constructions
By Caribe Insider San Cristobal de La Habana, city that in November turns 500 years old.In other times it was denominated by a bishop as the throat of all the Indies, inasmuch as the gold and silver of America passed annually on their journey to Spain through the narrow and short entrance channel of the Havana Bay. The siege of privateers and pirates constituted a threat to the ships anchored in the ports, and also to the inhabitants of the incipient villages, so the Spanish king Felipe II ordered a defense plan both for Cuba and for other lands of the New ....
Martinique Blends French Elegance and Caribbean Exoticism
By Caribe Insider Many people name it with the suggestive name of the island of flowers, because in the Caribbean Martinique bathed by the Caribbean Sea on its western and southern coasts and by the Atlantic Ocean in the east and north. The most diverse flowers sprout with vivid colors, with an amazing color palette. Travelers from different latitudes prefer this tourist destination because of its warm and sunny climate, as well as the attractions of its territory formed by hills, plateaus and mountains. Although Christopher Columbus was the first to arrive in Martinique, it was later populated by French settlers and it ....
HAVANA 500: at the Old Square Stands the Palacio Cueto Hotel
Among the attractions of the constructions that surround the Old Square, in the Historical Center of Havana, there is an old construction that after being rehabilitated it began to provide services only a few months ago;it is the Palacio Cueto Hotel. It is located on one of the corners of the abovementioned Havana square and stands out for being an Art Noveau building, built in 1908 and it is characterized by its majesty. It appears in the portfolio of accommodation offers of Havana, first destination of the City of Cuba, after a laborious rehabilitation that returned the lost splendor and now the ....
Santiago de Cuba with an Unparalleled Caribbean flavor
By Caribe Insider A polychrome culture, with indigenous ingredients such as son, bolero and rum, give Santiago de Cuba that Caribbean flavor, that make it into a city where history, music, tobacco, poetry and syncretic cults are merged indissolubly. The legendary village, founded in 1515 by the Spaniard Diego Velázquez celebrates its 504 Anniversary next July, and it is distinguished by the natural charm generated by the idiosyncrasy of its people. Santiago de Cuba adds to its inhabitants that mixture of European and African races, which give them as a gift to know the exact moment to dance with the rhythm of the ....
The Tourist Complex Las Terrazas, Ecotourism and Adventure
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, 200 years among the Favorite Destinations
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 ....
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The first known English settlement was built by shipwrecked British sailors in 1638. It was owned by Spain, but more and more British settlers arrived and in the area was annexed as a British colony became British Honduras.
