Baracoa: Back to its Roots

Visiting Baracoa, in the Province of Guantanamo, 494 years after its founding continues to be a trip into the past and perhaps a realization of our dreams of the origin of the world.

Even for Cubans, Baracoa is a sort of lost paradise from a bygone era. Located in the eastern part of the country, it is a fertile, undulating, abrupt and overwhelming land. In August of 1511, Royal Governor Diego Velazquez founded the first Cuban village, naming it Asuncion de Baracoa.

This is an especially charming city, surrounded by a green and blue water bay and made up of narrow streets, modest eclectic buildings, an old Spanish fort, and some more modern and comfortable hotels. But to talk about Baracoa, we have to go back to its roots.

One of the main attractions is simply walking its streets and breathing the fresh air from the clamour of virgin lands and breathtaking nature surrounding Baracoa