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The Cuban Flag was first raised over Cuba in this historic city of straight and narrow streets (the "Charleston of the Caribbean"), horse-drawn carriages, industry and "cangrejos" . [5] It was in Cárdenas where José Arechabala S.A. launched and started production of Havana Club in 1934. Cárdenas is the northernmost municipality in Cuba.
The port and the city of Cárdenas are located on the south-eastern shore. The bay has a total area of more than 250 km 2 (97 sq mi). An artificial navigation channel (Kawama Channel) connects the bay to the Straits of Florida south of the town of Varadero .
Varadero is known as a tourist resort town, with more than 20 km of white sandy beaches. The first tourists visited Varadero as early as the 1870s, and for years it was considered an elite resort. In 1910 the annual rowing regatta was started; five years later the first hotel, named Varadero, which later was renamed Club Nautico, was built.
Tourism travel to Cuba was soon declared by the U.S. State Department to be contrary to U.S. foreign policy and against the national interest. Tourism that year dropped to a record low of a mere 4180, forcing a dramatic downsizing of Cuba's tourist plans. [12] Visitors to Cuba during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s were comparatively rare.
It is located between the Bay of Cárdenas and the Nicholas Channel of the Atlantic Ocean, and its extremity (Punta Hicacos) constitutes the northernmost point of the island of Cuba. It has a length of 18 kilometres (11 mi) [ 1 ] and its width varies between 0.5 km (0.31 mi) and 2.5 km (1.6 mi).
Cuba reopened schools and its borders to international tourism on Monday as opposition groups urged supporters to protest for greater political freedoms, setting up a tense showdown between the ...
Harbour of Cárdenas in 1900. José Arechabala Aldama, a Spanish industrialist, established a distillery named La Vizcaya in 1878 [4] [5] in Cárdenas, Matanzas, Cuba. The distillery used the molasses residue from sugar refining to produce rum and other liquors. It also provided logistic services in the port of Cárdenas including warehouses ...
In April 2020, Cuba stopped all scheduled flights. In October 2020, it was announced that the airport would be reopening for flights with tourists being restricted to a "bubble", but before that began, the province moved to the "new normality" and the airport reopened for regular commercial flights, with flights from Mexico and the UK.