Hotels - Canimao

About  Canimao

Atop a hill bordering the Canímar River, navigable for various kilometers, you find this ideal hotel where you can enjoy complete holidays surrounded by a reassuring, tranquil, natural environment.

Its proximity to the city of Matanzas allows the visitor to tour its historical and cultural sites, marvel at its architecture, enjoy its bay and stroll along its crowded streets. Tourists can visit Varadero and enjoy the most famous Cuban beach. Another interesting spot is the Cueva de Bellamar (Bellamar Cave).

The excellent Tropicana Varadero Cabaret will make your evening a delight featuring a great show and top quality gastronomical services.

158 air-conditioned rooms with private bath, radio and satellite TV. Facilities: restaurant buffet, cafeteria, bar, grill bar, night club, swimming pool, game room, massage, mail service, shop, central security box, currency exchange, meeting room and parking.

Hotel Islazul Canimao is a budget hotel and it has not been renovated since it has been built, however the perfect location and the Cuban staff friendliness make it up for the structure. 

Calle Calzada 4 y Calle 13, Cárdenas, Matanzas

Oscar Maria de Rojas Museum

This beautifully restored museum is worth a visit for its wide-ranging exhibits on everything from archeology to ethnology to numismatics to colonial weaponry. The museum has a beautiful, bright inner courtyard displaying some lovely, early 19th-century furniture, as well as an ornate horse-drawn hearse. Lots of natural light illuminates the quirky, Victorian-era potpourri of natural-history exhibits, from bugs, butterflies, polymitas (snails with multicolored shells), to preserved fleas in nuptial dress, viewed under a magnifying glass. Antique buttons and buckles, pen nibs, death masks, a Masonic lodge throne in the shape of a peacock. On the historical side, there are the usual photographs of Cárdenas heroes of the wars of independence and the Revolution and a gruesome reminder of the risks rebels took, in the form of the garrote used to strangle victims to death. 

Calle del Medio e/ Milanés y Calle 282, Matanzas

San Carlos Cathedral

Recently restored on the outside, this massive, neoclassical church with two ornate towers is famous for its interior frescoes. In front of the church, there is a huge ceiba tree with a heavy, metal bell hanging from one of the branches, commemorating the bells that were rung to call in slaves from the sugar plantations. On the ground below lies a large, antique metal gear from a sugar mill.

Parte superior de Calle 312, Matanzas

Monserrat Heights Viewpoint

Monserrat Heights is a pleasant park that's also the site of La Ermita de Monserrat, a handsome, Colonial-Spanish style church. Built in 1875, the church is a shrine to the patron saint of Catalonians who immigrated to Cuba. This viewpoint has a spectacular view of the city and the bay, and the opposite direction is of the Yumuri River valley. There is also a snack bar in the park where you can refresh yourself.

Calle Milanés (Ca. 83), esq. de Calle Santa Teresa (Ca. 290), Matanzas

Triolet Pharmaceutics Museum

This museum is a perfectly preserved 19th-century natural-medicine pharmacy that looks out onto the Parque de Libertad through large stained glass windows. The pharmacy closed its doors in 1964, and has been preserved exactly as it was on that day, down to the huge, ornate cash register; the log book with handwritten recipes for each prescription; the rolls of brown paper to wrap the glass bottles that were individually filled and labeled; and the ceiling-high, handsome wood-and-glass cases holding hundreds of decorative porcelain jars. There are guided tours to the distillery behind the shop, where the pharmacists manufactured their world-famous trademark syrups and tonics. 

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