Cienfuegos City
About Cienfuegos City
The City of Cienfuegos is located to the south of the central region of Cuba, with costs to the sea Caribbean. Limit to the north with the county of Villa Clara, to the west with that of Matanzas and to the east with that of Sancti Spíritus.
In the bay, the fortress "Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Jagua", concluded in 1745, it is a solid exponent of the military architecture of the XVIII century in Cuba.
When being founded it was the only construction of their type with which it counted the center of the Island to watch over the Caribbean Sea of the attacks of corsairs and pirates.
Cienfuegos City is one of the prettiest cities in Cuba for its layout, for its homogeneous architecture of French inspiration, eclectic in more grade, but with an indelible neoclassical print, for its air of modernity and for its good conservation state.
The prettiest, they say the own "cienfuegueros" that call it, in plain language neither modesty, "The Perl of the South." In July of 2005 the historical urban center was inscribed in the list of Patrimony of the Humanity by the UNESCO.
Hotels in Cienfuegos
Hotel Palacio Azul
The intimate Hotel Encanto Palacio Azul (painted powder blue) was originally built in 1921 by an architect Alfredo Fontana and used to be a private residence of a wealthy tobacco baron; in 2004 the palace was renovated into a lovely, colonial style hotel. Please visit our Hotel Palacio Azul website to more details.
Hotel La Union
Hotel La Union rises majestic and captivating in the heart of the historical center of the Cienfuegos City, old "Fernandina de Jagua", colony been founded by Louis D'Clouet and other French colonists in 1819. Please visit our Hotel La Union website to more details.
