Topes De Collantes Paradise and adventure

Can you envisage a museum on a mountain? One with an impressive collection of Cuban art in a fantastic climate far from the workaday world, amid exuberant vegetation 800 meters above sea level and 20 kilometres from the nearest city?

Such a place exists. It is the Topes De Collantes Museum of Cuban Art where, in addition to a location famous for its incomparable topography, the architecture itself meets the expectations of the most demanding visitors.

Topes de Collantes is in the Escambray Mountains, in the center of the island. In this region, locals refer to the summit of a mountain as a "tope". Here, the average annual temperature is 21ºC, coffee crops are the basis of the economy, the rare, tall Pinus cubensis pine forests are conspicuous, and you may find some of the fifty-five wild endemic orchid species, with their delicate