CASA RICARDO E HIJOS

Modern house, located on the road to Siboney, very close to Parque Ferreiro. Very comfortable and spacious. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city in Cuba and the capital of the Santiago de Cuba province. The city has approximately 500,000 inhabitants. Until 1556, Santiago was the capital of Cuba and a stronghold of the Spanish Armada in the Caribbean. In 1862, "Don" Facundo Bacardí Massó founded the internationally renowned and successful Bacardí distillery. On July 26, 1953, the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro began with the attack on the Moncada Barracks. On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro announced the victory of the Cuban Revolution in Santiago de Cuba. On January 1, 1984, President Fidel Castro awarded the honorary title of "Hero City of the Republic of Cuba" to the city of Santiago. The official motto of the city, which is part of the city's coat of arms, is: "Rebellious yesterday, hospitable today, heroic always." The El Cobre Shrine, with its richly adorned sacred statue, is located between Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba. The Virgin of Charity of Cobre (Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre) is a wooden sacred statue that has been venerated since 1612 and is the main focus of pilgrimages in Cuba. On March 27, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI honored the Virgin of El Cobre with a Golden Rose on the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of its discovery during his pilgrimage to Cuba. Santiago is influenced by both Spanish and French influences, most visibly in the Tivolí neighborhood, which emerged during the wave of immigration of French settlers and their slaves.