Santiago of Cuba

The houses in Santiago of Cuba (18)

Vacation Rentals in Santiago of Cuba

You'll find here all the houses we manage in Santiago de Cuba. Despite of the distance, nour goal is to manage as many home rental and sales as possible, therefore if you own a house in Santiago, don't wait and propose it to us!

General Description of Santiago de Cuba

Santiago of Cuba has always culturally been considered as the great rival of Havana, while politically, it was always been reputed as the cradle of the Cuban Revolution. It played a main role in the Fulgencio Batista government overthrowing before the Fidel Castro's government. It was in Santiago where this latter, together with a band of insurrected, attacked the Moncada Quarter, beginning the famous July 26th movement and it was in the Sierra Maestra, a mountain zone of Cuban Orient, where the most part of the Cuban Revolution was realized. Fidel Castro himself, defines Santiago of Cuba as the Revolution heroic city.

Furthermore Santiago of Cuba is the greatest city of Cuba after Havana, without arriving to have the appearance of a big metropolis and keeping a decisive Caribbean aspect. Santiago also keep the influence of French and Haitian cultivators, inherited from the IXX^th century. Santiago is also the capital of the ancient Orient province, it has the biggest influence from the Afrocuban culture and its people are vibrant and friendly.

At the beginning, Santiago of Cuba was the capital of Cuba. But, despite of the fact that since 1607, Havana City become the new capital of Cuba, Santiago was never eclipsed by this later, being much more than a simple capital of a province producing sugar and coffee. Santiago is a world apart, a Cuba inside Cuba and its history has nothing to envy to the Havana one.

Reasons to visit Santiago of Cuba are many. You can go to see the carnivals (July, 26th), which are popular everywhere in Cuba, or to visit the Morro Fortress (much more interesting of the fortress with the same name in Havana), to sit down at the base of Sierra Maestra mountains, to make excursions outside the city, such as the sacred El Cobre ot the Gran Piedra, a vast rock area. While the places to visit inside Santiago city of Cuba are countless.

But the most interesting thing of Santiago of Cuba is the people, who has inherited a lot of aspect of Spain culture, a unique vocabulary and a very musical speaking, very similar to the Santo Domingo one in the Dominican Republic.

And, let say it, Santiago of Cuba is full of private homes for rent and our side will collect them little by little.