Sancti Spíritus

Cuba

Sancti Spiritus is a city in central Cuba.

Escambray, is the local periodical.

Sights in Sancti Spiritus include:

  • The bridge over the Rio Yayabo, built by the Spanish in 1815
  • Museo de Arte Colonial, just north of the bridge, which displays 19th Century furniture in a huge house that once belonged to the Valle-Iznaga family
  • Street market along Calle Llano, which is paved with cobblestones (just east of the museo de Arte Colonial)
  • Fundacion de la Naturaleza y El Hombre, located off the Parque Maceo in the northern part of the city centre, which documents the 17,422-km canoe trip from Equador to Barbados led by Cuban writer Antonio Nunez Jimenez in 1987.

Take a walk through the historical centre of the city, starting from the train station in the south and ending at the Parque Maceo in the north.