Cafetal La Isabelica Coffee Plantation, Santiago de Cuba
Visit the Cafetal La Isabelica Coffee Plantation, the most important and famous one in the southeast of the country, in Santiago de Cuba.
Cafetal La Isabelica Coffee Plantation
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Created by French emigrants from Haiti, there are more than 60 coffee plantations in the area, standing out the famous Cafetal La Isabelica, 2 kilometers besides La Gran Piedra. It was declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000.
Visit the Cafetal La Isabelica, around 1150 meters above the sea level, and admire its vast coffee drying spot, as well as the amazing two-floors mansions in stone from the 19th century currently museum. In here you’ll find a workshop, ancient furniture and several items related to the slaves from the plantation.
Admire the sundial, the bakery, and many interesting objects related to coffee plantations in the exterior and ground floor of the mansion, while the top floor is a copy of an original house.
Go on walking trips through the lands covered by pines, and visit other coffee plantation leaving from La Isabelica, with the chance to pay for a farmer as a guide.
More information:
Location:
Carretera de la Gran Piedra, Km 14
Ticket price:
2 CUC
Opening hours:
From 8:00am to 4:00
Interactive map:
Santiago de Cuba
What to see:
- Céspedes Park
- Calle Heredia Street
- Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Cathedral
- Velázquez Balcony
- Casa de la Trova
- Model of the City
- Plaza de Dolores Square
- Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores Church
- Plaza de Marte Square
- Provincial Government Palace
- Tívoli
- Escalinata Padre Pico Highway
- Cuartel Moncada Headquarters
- Plaza de la Revolución
- Pioneers’ Palace
- La Gran Piedra
- Cumbre La Gran Piedra Summit
- Cafetal La Isabelica Coffee Plantation
- Parque Baconao
- Baconao Aquarium
- Baconao Lagoon
- Granma Cay
- Siboney
- El Cobre
- Nuestra Señora del Cobre Basilica
- Chivirico and its Vicinity
- Pico Turquino Peak Area
- Pico Turquino
Beaches:
Museums:
- Museum of Historical Cuban Atmosphere
- Archdiocesan Museum
- Municipal Museum Emilio Bacardí Moreau
- El Carnaval Museum
- Rum Museum
- Clandestine Fight Museum
- Casa-Natal de Antonio Maceo Birth House Museum
- Abel Santamaría Historic Park
- San Juan Historic Park and the Peace Tree
- Cemetery of Santa Ifigenia
- Castle of San Pedro de la Roca del Morro
- Granjita Siboney Museum
- Spanish-Cuban-American War Museum
- Prehistory Valley
- Monument to Cimarrón
Other nearby destinations:
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