San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba

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Best time to go: December–April
Budget: $$
Coordinates: Open in maps

Seventeenth-century rivalries among the Caribbean powers prompted Spain to fortify the rocky headland guarding Santiago de Cuba's harbour. The result — a stepped complex of forts, bastions, batteries and magazines designed on Italian Renaissance principles — is reckoned the most complete and best-preserved work of Spanish-American military engineering. UNESCO inscribed San Pedro de la Roca Castle in 1997.

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