Cruises from Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is a Provincial capital city of half a million people located at the SE of the island, and 870 km from the capital Havana. It lies at the end of an 8km inlet, Santiago Bay, that faces the Caribbean Sea, and is 200 km equidistant from Jamaica and Haiti. Historically, Santiago has long been the second city of Cuba.
Read moreFounded in 1514 by conquistador Diego Velázquez, it had mixed fortunes, firstly as a base for Spanish plundering of the region, and subsequently plundered itself by the French, the British, and finally by the USA in 1898 with the destruction of their Atlantic fleet just outside the harbor to end the Spanish-American War. Today Santiago is undergoing expansion as a sea port for the region.
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