Holguín in Cuba
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Holguín is a municipality-city in
Cuba . After
Havana ,
Santiago de Cuba , and
Camagüey , it is the
fourth largest city in Cuba. The brewery Cervecería Bucanero is based in the city. It makes three brands of beer: Bucanero, Cristal and Mayabe.
Before Columbus , the Taino people settled in huts made from royal palm in the Holguin area later urbanized by the Spanish ; their artifacts are shown at the local Holguin La Periquera museum . The settlement was founded in 1523 on land donated by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar to Captain Francisco García Holguín, a Spanish military officer. Holguin added his maternal surname to the name of the town, giving it the name San Isidoro de Holguín . Prior to 1976, Holguín was located in the province of Oriente . Before Pope Francis’s visit to the United States , in September 2015, he visited Cuba, and one of his stops was at the Diocese of Holguín to, among other things, commemorate the location where Christopher Columbus landed.
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There are several small city parks such as Parque Infantil, Parque San José, Parque San Isidoro (Las Flores), Parque Martí, among others, most central the Calixto García in the downtown area. Close by one finds the
galleries Centro Provincial de Arte and Bayado, a
library , the club Casa de la Trova, the Martí
cinema , the Theatre Eddy Suñol, the La Periquera, a science museum, and a history museum.
One of the most famous landmarks of the city is the hill
Loma de la Cruz (English: Hill of the Cross), which can be ascended by climbing its +450 stairs, and from where the whole city can be admired. There, in the early years of the city, a large cross was erected with the belief that it would protect it from evil coming down from the North.
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Wikivoyage Holguín and
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