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Santiago de Cuba

Cuba Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba
Photo: Alex Cano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cuba's second city and the home of son music and Afro-Cuban culture, with the Castillo del Morro fortress on a cliff at the mouth of the bay, a UNESCO site, and the cemetery where Fidel Castro and José Martí are buried.


The July carnival is the liveliest in Cuba.

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