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Cuba UNESCO world heritage sites

Camaguey province [capital = Camaguey]

Historic Centre of Camaguey @
The property reflects the influence of numerous styles through the ages: neoclassical, eclectic, Art Deco, Neo-colonial as well as some Art Nouveau and rationalism.

Cienfuegos province [capital = Cienfuegos]

Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos see detail
As an example of modern urbanism in Spanish American, this planned town reflected new socio-economic and cultural trends related to urban order, the role of public spaces, and public hygiene requirements for natural light and ventilation. Public functions were focused on Parque Jose Marti, the site of the church and public and government buildings. Notable amongst the 19th-century Neoclassical buildings are the Catedral de la Purisima Concepcion, Teatro Terry, the Palacio de Valle, El Palatino, Casa de Los Leones, Hotel La Union and the Aduana.

Granma province [capital = Manzanillo]

Desembarco del Granma National Park in Pilon + Niquero + Cabo Cruz
The property lies within the tectonically active zone between the Caribbean and the North American Plate and conserves the limestone terraces of Cabo Cruz at the western end of the Sierra Maestra Mountains. A series of these elevated terraces extends from 180 meters below to 360 meters above sea level.

Guantanamo province [capital = Guantanamo]

Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba in Niceto Perez + Guantanamo + El Salvador + Yateras
It includes not only the architectural and archaeological material evidence of 171 old coffee plantations or cafetales, but also the infrastructure for irrigation and water management, and the transportation network of mountain roads and bridges connecting the plantations internally and with coffee export points. The topography, dominated by the steep and rugged slopes of the Sierra Maestra foothills, speaks to the plantation owners' (primarily of French and Haitian origin) ingenuity in their exploitation of the natural environment through the sweat and blood of their African slaves.

Alejandro de Humboldt National Park in Yateras
Many of the underlying rocks are toxic to plants so species have had to adapt to survive in these hostile conditions. This unique process of evolution has resulted in the development of many new species and the park is one of the most important sites in the Western Hemisphere for the conservation of endemic flora. Endemism of vertebrates and invertebrates is also very high.

La Habana province [capital = Havana]

Old City of Havana see detail
Interspersed with this mix of baroque and neoclassical style monuments is a homogeneous ensemble of private houses with arcades, balconies, wrought-iron gates and internal courtyards, many of them evocatively time-worn.

Pinar del Rio province [capital = Pinar del Rio]

Valley in Vinales @
The quality of this cultural landscape is enhanced by the vernacular architecture of its farms and villages, where a rich multi-cultural society survives, its architecture, crafts and music illustrating the cultural development of Cuba and the islands of the Caribbean.

Sancti Spiritus province [capital = Sancti Spiritus]

Valley de los Ingenios in Palmarito
The Valley de los Ingenios is a remarkable testimony to the development of the sugar industry. A living museum of Cuban sugar production, it includes the sites of 75 former cane sugar mills, plantation houses, barracks and other facilities related to this vulnerable industry, which has witnessed a gradual and progressive decline.

City of Trinidad @
The exemplary city of Trinidad's prosperity during this period is clearly legible in its existing built environment, its buildings ranging in expression from modest, vernacular variants to elaborate, luxurious edifices.

Santiago de Cuba province [capital = Santiago de Cuba]

San Pedro de la Roca Castle in Santiago de Cuba at El Morro
A classic bastioned fortification in which geometrical form, symmetry and proportionality between sides and angles predominate, the Castle is an outstanding representative of the Spanish-American school of military architecture.

Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba in La Gran Piedra + El Cobre + Contramaestre
The coffee processing system of wet pulping, developed exclusively by the French in this area required specific hydraulic infrastructure of cisterns, aqueducts and viaducts which are still visible in the landscape. Surviving vegetation illustrates the integration of coffee growing shaded by the natural forest or under fruit trees as well as French-style formal gardens that integrated local flora.