A country · 80 places · 14 regions
Cuba, all of it.
80 curated places across 14 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.
The 4 biggest regions — Havana Province, Matanzas Province, Sancti Spíritus Province and Pinar del Río Province — read below as chapters, with 10 more waiting past them.
Chapter I · Havana Province · 27 places
Havana Province
The historic colonial core of Havana is a dense grid of plazas, baroque churches, and pastel townhouses that trace the city's founding in the sixteenth century. Its restored streets and crumbling grandeur draw visitors into everyday Cuban life.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter II · Matanzas Province · 6 places
Matanzas Province
Varadero occupies a narrow 22-kilometre peninsula on Cuba's north coast that supports one of the longest stretches of uninterrupted white-sand Caribbean beach in the region. The peninsula is primarily developed with all-inclusive resort complexes, making it the centre of Cuba's international tourism industry. The western end of the peninsula contains the Reserva Ecológica de Varahicacos, protecting native dry forest, cave systems with pre-Columbian pictographs, and a 500-year-old cactus.
✦ November to April · $$
Chapter III · Sancti Spíritus Province · 6 places
Sancti Spíritus Province
A ribbon of pale sand on a peninsula just south of colonial Trinidad, considered the finest beach on Cuba's southern coast. Visitors split their time between the historic town and the water, cycling the flat road between the two. Dive operators run trips to reefs and small cays offshore.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter IV · Pinar del Río Province · 4 places
Pinar del Río Province
A remote dive outpost at the far western tip of Cuba, facing the sheltered waters of the Bahía de Corrientes. Coral walls and abundant black coral start close to shore, making it one of the country's premier diving bases. There is little here beyond a small hotel, a dive center, and a long, calm beach.
✦ December to April for the best visibility and calm seas · $$
Regions of Cuba
Every place in Cuba
