VARADERO CUBA

5/8/09

Varadero Cuba-The Most Beautiful Beach In The World!



VARADERO CUBA

Varadero beach—many experienced tourist call it the world’s greatest beach—has long been the pride of Cuba, and a magnet for the rich and famous. Today, a broad range of hotels and resorts on this wide, sandy beach offer affordable vacations to please any pocketbook.


Considered by many as the world's most beautiful beach, Varadero is part of a peninsula that stretches far out into the calm waters of the Atlantic. Its 21-kilometre strip of fine white sand is an ideal vacation spot for sun-lovers, water babies and golfers. Its location on a narrow peninsula ensures that it is constantly cooled by tropical breezes.


But this white beach set against a backdrop of astonishing turquoise water and azure sky is not the only attraction in Matanzas province. The nearby cities of Cárdenas and Matanzas (the provincial capital) are known for their art, history and culture. Southwest of Varadero, on the province's Caribbean coast, is the Zapata Peninsula, famous for its ecotourism and history.

VARADERO BEACH IN CUBA


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BEAUTIFUL VARADERO BEACH IS PRICELESS

VARADERO BEACH


VARADERO BEACH

Just took a leisurely stroll down the pristine beaches of Varadero Beach in Cuba. What a magnificent view. Your toes feel like they are being massaged by a thousand granular white sand beach, the crystal clear aqua blue waters are set like a flat mirrored table reflecting the brilliant Caribbean Sunshine.
My recommendation: If you want to feel like a little kid again then drop what your doing in your hectic life and jump on the fastest flight that will transport you to this island paradise. Believe me you will be a stones throw from heaven on earth.

That is why we all Love Varadero Cuba! See you soon in Paradise.

The Varadero Beach Team!

5/6/09

VARADERO HOTELS


VARADERO HOTELS  INFO

Varadero is the most important tourist resort in all of Cuba, boasting more than 19 km of gorgeous white sand beaches. The first foreign tourists visited Varadero in the early 1870s, and for many years Varadero was considered one of America's Best resorts. In 1910 Varadero hosted the famous annual rowing regatta.  Five years later the first hotel, called Hotel Varadero and later Hotel Club Nautico, was built. Tourism in Varadero grew rapidly in the early 1920s & 30's as Irénée du Pont Nemours, the aristocratic American millionaire, built his estate on the peninsula. Soon after many famous and also infamous movie stars, Industrial magnates & gangsters vacationed & built their personal summer mansions in Varadero, for example the legendary American gangster Al Capone.
After Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution in 1959, many of these beautiful mansions were expropriated from their rich owners. As a symbol of the new integrated tourism for Cubans and foreign visitors of all social classes, the Park of the 8000 Cubicles (Parque de las 8000 Taquillas) was built in 1960. Visitors could actually leave their personal belongings safety in the basement of the park and  had access to sanitary installations and a variety of food services on the first floor. They could rent bathing articles and swimsuits and go swimming in Varadero's incredible clear warm Caribbean waters. The surroundings of this area soon became the center of Varadero Beach. Between the 1960s and 1980s under the Cuban Governmental Artistic programs Varadero transformed itself into the Cuban Tourism cultural centre. During those years the central park (8000 Taquillas) (located between 44th and 46th Street) saw countless concerts, festivals and sporting events that attracted artists from around the world.

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VACATION IN VARADERO

The 1990s brought the start of another hotel building campaign, mostly in the 4-star and 5-star segment. Many of the hotels are operated or co-owned by foreign businesses like Melia, Barcelo, TRYP, etc. (France's Club Med used to have a property but has since left Varadero.) As international tourism was opened up, the local population expanded with the arrival of people, some in key economic positions, from other parts of Cuba. As a consequence, Varadero has lost much of its social and cultural life and its traditions. The central park, the cinema and various cultural meeting places were neglected in favor of a hotel-centred all-inclusive-tourism and finally closed. The International Carnival, an initiative of Cubans and foreigners started in the 1980s, also ceased.

In addition to its most valued resource, the beach, Varadero has natural attractions such as caves and a chain of easily accessed virgin cays. There are also cultural, historical and environmental attractions in the vicinity, such as the cities of Matanzas and Cárdenas, the Zapata Peninsula and the resort of San Miguel de los Baños. Varadero, which is a free port, also possesses facilities for scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, yachting and other water sports.

Varadero receives about 3.5 million visitors per year.
Varadero is primarily visited by European, Latin American and Canadian tourists. The number of U.S. tourists visiting Varadero is increasing.

VARADERO TRAVEL TIPS

VARADERO EXCURSIONS


 PLACES TO VISIT  IN VARADERO

BELLAMAR CAVE
Deep in the cliff overlooking Matanzas Bay is Bellamar Cave, one of the Caribbean’s largest and most beautiful underground formations. Two kilometres of underground passages are covered in peculiar stalagmites, stalactites and calcite crystals

VARADERO
Sightseeing trip through the resort city, stopping at Expo Giron, the Varadero Museum, the Du Pont mansion (now Las Americas Restaurant) and Coppelia Ice Cream Parlor

SPECTATOR SPORTS
Attend a game at the Victoria de Giron Stadium in Matanzas.

 CARDENAS
Across the bay from Varadero is Cardenas, where the Cuban flag was first flown. The town’s story is told through its architecture and museums. Stops at Jose Antonio Echevarria’s birthplace (now a museum) and the Polyvalent Museum.

 TROPICANA
Supershow (more than 200 dancers on stage), dinner and dancing in this fabulous nightclub under the stars.


HAVANA
Havana is a never-ending symphony of movement and music. See colonial Havana and visit one of its museums, lunch at the Havana Libre Hotel in modern Havana, shop or just relax, then enjoy the supershow and dinner at the Tropicana.

HAVANA SPECIAL
This trip includes a visit to the Hemingway Museum, lunch at the 1830 Restaurant and a tour of colonial and modern Havana. You’ll shop at La Maison House of Cuban Fashion, and enjoy dinner and a show at the Tropicana.

WHAT TO DO IN VARADERO CUBA

VARADERO RESTAURANTS



VARADERO RESTAURANTS

Restaurants specializing in Asian, Cuban Italian,Spanish and international cuisine as well as barbecued meat and shellfish promise satisfaction for every taste. Cafeterias offer lighter meals and fast food as well. Coppelia Ice Cream Parlour has countless flavours of creamy Cuban ice cream.

CUBAN ICE CREAM

PLACES TO VISIT IN VARADERO

VARADERO CUBA

Cayo Piedra Underwater Park

This park to the northeast features several shipwrecks where schools of colourful, tropical fish and crustaceans gather.

Varadero Golf Club

Is a magnificent 18-hole championship course on the peninsula, marked by an intricate system of lagoons in the British “links” tradition.

Centre Plaza América

This well appointed international convention centre incorporates shopping malls, restaurants and amusement centres.

Josone's Oasis

Near the beach has typical tropical vegetation in its gardens and groves, as well as lagoons. Several old mansions have been converted into restaurants.

Ambrosio Cave

an archeological site first used as a ceremonial spot by the area's primitive inhabitants and later by runaway slaves, has well preserved pictographs.

Punta Frances

A 600-year-old-cactus as tall as a tree grows at the end of the Hicacos peninsula, near a natural salt pit where leathers and meats were prepared over the centuries.

Cárdenas

Is noted for three unusual monuments: replicas of a bicycle, a horse-drawn carriage and a crab cast in concrete that represents the abundant crustaceans in the area.

Matanzas City

Canímar woods on the outskirts of Matanzas are best seen from the river. At the mouth of the river is a small colonial castle (El Morrillo) where a the bodies of two revolutionaries rest in a mausoleum. The castle also has an archaeological museum with ecological displays.

Vigía Square, site of the original town, has the Junco Palace Historical Museum, the 19th century Sauto Theatre and an exhibition of ancient fire-fighting equipment in the former military headquarters.

Le Triolet French pharmacy, built in 1882, is still stocked with ancient drugs, utensils and porcelain medicine flasks, all preserved under glass on the store’s original shelves of hand-finished Cuban wood.

Bellamar Cave, on the outskirts of Matanzas, is one of the Caribbean’s largest and most beautiful underground formations. Two kilometres of underground passages are covered in peculiar stalagmites, stalactites and calcite crystals.

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