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Declared by the UNESCO Patrimony of Mankind, next to the Valle de los Ingenios, in Trinidad it seems that the time stopped in the first half of the XIX century. The paved streets, the wooden balustrades in the big windows, the roomy houses with vestibules, the run balconies, the cars of horses and the people, affable and simple in the gestures, are the most characteristic features in this old Cuban village, first one of 7 founded by the Spanish conquerors; of where Hernán Cortés left to the conquest of Mexico, in 1518.
Any journey should begin with the biggest Square, surrounded of buildings that maintain the same splendor of in the past and a well conserved sample of the Creole Baroque, to continue then toward the Real of the Jigüe square, where the first Catholic mass was officiated; the tavern L Canchánchara, Santa Ana and Three Cruces squares are also points of forced reference. The best view in the Valle de los Ingenios can be seen from the Tower-Belfry of Manaca-Iznaga or from the natural miradors of the Hill of the Port and the Hill of the Masthead.
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