This bucolic finca (farm) has a bar-restaurant where you can sample guarapo (pressed cane juice) and order lunch. A steam train chugs in here from the Central Patria o Muerte sugar museum daily and deposits a carriage-full of tourists.
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Anglers, listen up: 12km north of Morón, off the Cayo Coco road, this mangrove-rimmed, 4-sq-km lake has the island's best square-kilometer density of bass…
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21.75 MILES
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6.48 MILES
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21.81 MILES
Cuba's most beautiful beds? Not in Varadero, nor in one of the island's classic colonial stop-offs, but downstairs at this modest museum. The thoughtful…
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Cuba's sugar industry is preserved at this huge, rusting ex-sugar mill founded in 1914 in the village of Patria, 3km south of Morón. Guides explain the…
4.15 MILES
Morón has long been central Cuba's main railway crossroads and exhibits the most elegant railway station outside Havana. Built in 1923, the building's…
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Small park in the northern part of Morón with a small church and an old theater. The access road to Laguna de la Leche branches north from here.
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Morón is famous for its emblematic cockerel, which stands guard on a roundabout opposite the Hotel Morón on the southern edge of town. It's named after a …
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