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Santa Clara is the capital city of the Cuban province of Villa Clara. It is centrally located in the province and Cuba. It is centrally located in the province and Cuba. Santa Clara is the fifth-most populous Cuban city , with a population of nearly 245,959.
His speech was followed by a coordinated 21-gun salute in both Santa Clara and Havana, while air raid sirens were set off across the length of the island. [ 2 ] In addition to those of Che Guevara the remains of six other guerrillas who lost their lives in the 1966–1967 Bolivian Insurgency were also entombed in the mausoleum on October 17, 1997:
Cuba's provinces as shown on a 1910s map. Santa Clara (also known as Las Villas after 1940) was a historical province of Cuba and its capital was Santa Clara.After 1976, its territory was divided into the modern Cuban provinces of Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Sancti Spíritus.
Estadio Augusto César Sandino is a multi-use stadium in Santa Clara, Cuba. It is currently used mostly for baseball games and is the home stadium of Villa Clara Naranjas. The stadium holds 20,000 people. Sandino Stadium "Orange fury" | La furia naranja, el estadio sandino de Santa Clara
Loma del Capiro and the rooftops of Santa Clara. Loma del Capiro (English: Capiro's Hill) is a group of three small peaks located in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba.. The elevation gained local and worldwide historic significance after Che Guevara used it as hideout and command center to invade the city in a battle known as Battle of Santa Clara during the Cuban Revolution.
Parque Vidal (also known by its previous names of Plaza Central and Plaza Mayor) is a park located in the center of Santa Clara, Cuba, covering an entire square block of the city. Due to its surrounding architecture, combining eclectic neo-classical and colonial-style buildings, as well as the large number of historic monuments dating from ...
The Tren Blindado (transl. Armoured train) is a national monument, memorial park, and museum [1] of the Cuban Revolution, located in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba.It was created by the Cuban sculptor José Delarra on the site of and in memory of the capture of an armoured train on 29 December 1958, during the Battle of Santa Clara.
During pre-Spanish settlement in Cuba, what now is Villa Clara province was populated by Taíno people with chieftains of Sabanaque (north west), Sabana (north east), and Cubanacan, literally "The Middle Land" in the center where Santa Clara city is located nowadays. In this region from the eastern landing point of the Spanish was where ...