Remedios
Remedios is a central Cuban colonial town built round the sugar industry. The sugar factory we were taken to had been vast in its heyday. However now a sugar museum is housed in a small part of one of its large disused buildings.
Fun train ride to the Sugar Museum. The train ride was more entertaining than the Sugar Museum.
A demonstration of making Sugar cane juice & a few exhibits were on show in the remains of the factory complex.
A local farmer with a cartload of tomatoes driven by a couple of oxen ambled by while we were outside the sugar factory.
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista – A particularly impressive church for such a small place as Remedios. I liked the ornate Baroque altar.
The El Louvre bar has hardly changed since it was built over 150 years ago.
Round the corner from the sedate Plaza Marti, they were setting up floats for yet another fiesta. Cubans don’t need much of an excuse to party!
