Places of Cuba

The cities and regions that shaped Cuban life, culture, and exile memory.

Cuba's capital and largest city — a place of faded grandeur, pastel architecture, and deep exile memory.

The cradle of Cuban music and a center of revolution, history, and Afro-Cuban culture in the east.

A beautifully preserved colonial town and UNESCO World Heritage Site built on the wealth of the sugar trade.

Cuba's most famous beach resort area, on a long peninsula of white sand on the northern coast.

A Cuban province and bay best known internationally for the U.S. naval base and detention facility.

An elegant bayside city known as the “Pearl of the South,” famed for its French-influenced neoclassical architecture.

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