Top Things to do in Santa Clara
9 Sights & Landmarks in Santa Clara That You Shouldn't Miss
Discover the best top things to do in Santa Clara, Cuba including Che Guevara Mausoleum, Mausoleo del Che Guevara, Teatro La Caridad, Statue of Che Guevara Holding a Child, Catedral de Santa Clara de Asis, NaturArte, Monumento a la Toma del Tren Blindado, Fabrica de Tabacos Costantino Perez Carrodegua, Israeli Cemetery of the Hebrew Community of Santa Clara.
Restaurants in Santa Clara
1. Che Guevara Mausoleum
2. Mausoleo del Che Guevara
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3,132 reviews
Reviewed By caitrionaonatrip
Set a little bit outside Santa Clara, the Ché monument is very striking. There is a garden a little behind it honouring fallen revolutionary comrades. The mausoleum underneath the statue is very peaceful, and the small museum about Ché has some really interesting photos of him, and his upbringing.
3. Teatro La Caridad
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 237 reviews
Reviewed By Jasmine38Chichester - Chichester, United Kingdom
This was an excellent 30 min visit for 1 CUC each. What a bargain as included a guide! Worth a visit as beautiful inside with lots of history.
4. Statue of Che Guevara Holding a Child
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 354 reviews
Reviewed By Coastal04032532652 - Ilchester, United Kingdom
And, values that are still held in Cuba today. The intricate details to be found all over the statue mirror the life-story of this very clever man who was killed fighting for his beliefs. Far more moving and iconic than the very large statue at the mausoleum.
5. Catedral de Santa Clara de Asis
6. NaturArte
7. Monumento a la Toma del Tren Blindado
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1,043 reviews
This boxcar museum, east on Independencia just over the river, marks the spot where 18 men under the command of Che Guevara, equipped with rifles and grenades, captured a 22-car armored train containing 350 heavily armed Batista troops. Amazingly, this battle, which took place on December 29, 1958, only lasted 90 minutes. The bulldozer that the guerrillas used to cut the railway line is on a pedestal nearby.
Reviewed By dianedinky
Maybe it depends what tour company you are with but I had no experience of being stopped from entering any of the carriage museums. We arrived, our guide showed the group coupon, and we were free to enter and stroll around as we liked. The sculpture is certainly unusual and worth a picture. They also have the bulldozer and crowbar from the attack (masterminded by Guevara). Each carriage is a mini-museum with old photos and artefacts and one of the few places I visited in Cuba that had English as well as the Spanish text so was easy to go around on your own. A couple of nice souvenir shops across the road too.
8. Fabrica de Tabacos Costantino Perez Carrodegua
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 42 reviews
Reviewed By G3551NHkeithp
This is the cigar factory shop on Maceo on the opposite side of the street to the factory and I visited this shop again this year spending a lot of time there with my companera (Cubana) The shop is really in two parts, the main one being at the front selling cigars and rum. The section at the back is really a little bar where you can buy coffee, soft drinks, beer and of course a cigar or two. There are two dark wood tables with chairs and you can sit and enjoy a drink and cigar while down one wall is lined with dark wood shelves full of bottles of rum.(Photo' of my companera eyeing up a bottle, wasn't happy until I bought her one) The assistants are very friendly and one of them spoke good English. We all got on so well that on one occasion we spent two hours there.
9. Israeli Cemetery of the Hebrew Community of Santa Clara
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 6 reviews
