Cienfuegos: Cuba Has One City the French Laid Out. It Still Doesn’t Look Like the Rest of the Island
Cienfuegos: Cuba Has One City the French Laid Out. It Still Doesn’t Look Like the Rest of the Island

The first thing you notice in Cienfuegos, Cuba  is the straight lines. You come in off the road expecting the usual tangle of a Cuban town — narrow lanes, colonial walls leaning on each other, a plaza that grew where the streets happened to…

Cuba’s Oldest City Was Cut Off From the Rest of the Country Until 1965
Cuba’s Oldest City Was Cut Off From the Rest of the Country Until 1965

Baracoa Cuba: The road that finally connected Baracoa to the rest of Cuba is called La Farola, and it does not let you arrive gently. It climbs out of Guantánamo, hairpins up into the Sierra del Purial, and for a while there’s nothing on…