Top of the World
Trinidad is a city in the center of Cuba, famous for its colonial old town and cobbled streets. The neo-Baroque central Plaza Mayor is surrounded by sumptuous colonial palaces. Both the Romanesque Museum in the restored Palacio Brunet and the Museo de Arquitectura Colonial display relics from the time when the city produced sugar. The Iglesia de la Santísima is a 19th century cathedral with vaulted ceilings and inlaid altars. The neoclassical Museum of Municipal History contains historical relics from the colonial and revolutionary era. You can admire a panorama from the top of its towers, as well as from the yellow and white bell tower of the nearby convent of St. Francis. In the mountains to the north of the city there are paths that lead through the dense forests of the Topes de Collantes National Park to the impressive Salto de Caburní waterfall. To the east of the city lies the verdant Valle de los Ingenios, dotted with plantation houses and ruins of the old sugar factory.
