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	SANTIAGO DE CUBA
		Santiago de Cuba is Havana's rival in literature, music and politics, and is regarded as the 'cradle of the revolution' because of the pivotal role it played in overthrowing the Fulgencio Batista regime.
		Santiago de Cuba was founded in 1514 by Diego Velázquez, first governor of Cuba; it was moved a few miles to the present site in 1522.
		Santiago de Cuba was a focal point of the Spanish-American War, and many reminders of that conflict are found in the area.
	digilander.libero.it /fabiomario/santiagodecuba (341 words)

	Cuba-Junky \| Santiago de Cuba City
		The Capital of Santiago de Cuba Province, which has one of the first seven settlements that the Europeans founded in Cuba early in the 16th century, is one of the most pitoresque on the island.
		Moreover, Santiago de Cuba city with the greatest Caribbean flavor and Cartagena, Colombia, are the only Latin American cities to have recieved the Golden Apple Award presented by the International Federation of Travel Writers and Journalists (FIJET) in recognation of their exceptionally high quality and excellent conditions as tourist destination.
		Santiago's Carnival is the most famous in Cuba, and this small museum, in one of the oldest houses on Calle Heredia, aims to give visitors some historical perspective.
	www.cuba-junky.com /santiago-de-cuba/santiago-de-cuba-city-home.htm (3100 words)

	AA cuba-yes.com - Hotels in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
		Santiago de Cuba is Havana's rival in literature, music and politics, and is regarded as the Cradle of the Revolution because of the pivotal role it played in overthrowing the Batista regime.
		Santiago de Cuba was one of the first of seven towns in Cuba and the Spanish colony's capital until 1553.
		Santiago de Cuba today has the requisite noise, traffic, and pollution of a large city, but the intimate, friendly feel of a provincial capital, with leafy, peaceful neighborhoods where men play dominoes outdoors on hilly streets.
	www.cuba-yes.com /cuba-hotels-santiago-de-cuba.html (1013 words)

	Cuba-Junky \| Santiago de Cuba Province
		Santiago de Cuba is a tourist destination combining many values and atractions, which enables visitors to come into contact with the distinguishing characteristics of its people and the culture and history of the province while, at the same time, enjoying its exotic beaches and other well conserved natural attraction.
		This place is in the Mella municipality, in the province of Santiago de Cuba and was declared a National Monument on October 10th of 1978 due to its significance in the struggles for independence.
		The coast of Santiago de Cuba Province is wild, very warm and apparently untouched, dotted with enticing coves that have beaches of pebbles or sand and backdrops of peaks covered with lush vegetation.
	www.cuba-junky.com /santiago-de-cuba/index.htm (2531 words)

	Santiago de cuba
		Located in the eastern part of Cuba, Santiago is one of the provinces with the largest population : more than a million inhabitants, yet one of the smallest in extension, with only 6170 square kilometers (including its keys), of which 67% are mountainous.
		The territory presently occupied by Santiago de Cuba was part of the old Oriente province, which became a province of its own when the new political administrative division was introduced, in 1976.
		Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city in Cuba and was the capital until 1553.
	www.geocities.com /santiago_de_cuba2001 (473 words)

	Santiago de Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A seaport on the southern coast of Cuba in Oriente province.
		Santiago de Cuba, a wooden, brigantine-rigged, side wheel steamer built in 1861 at Brooklyn, N.Y., was purchased by the Navy on 6 September 1861 at New York City; and was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 5 November 1861, Comdr.
		Santiago de Cuba scored next on 26 April 1862 when she took schooner, Mersey, of Charleston, S.C.; and she captured schooner, Maria, on the 30th off Port Royal.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s5/santiago_de_cuba.htm (575 words)

	Cuba Photo Essay: Santiago de Cuba
		Santiago de Cuba, also known as the City of Heroes or City of Giants, is an overwhelming city for exploring and learning about the culture and history.
		Twelve miles northwest of Santiago in an emerald mountain valley (so long as you can't see the industrial side of town,) is El Cobre, an old copper mining town, now largely out of the copper business.
		Cuba may be a communist island but many people grow up believing in the powers of La Virgen de la Caridad.
	www.ibike.org /cuba/espiritu/7-Santiago.htm (1668 words)

	Santiago de Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Santiago de Cuba is the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in eastern Cuba.
		Santiago de Cuba is located on the south-east of the island, some 540 miles east south-east of Havana.
		From 1522 until 1589 Santiago was the capital of the Spanish colony of Cuba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santiago,_Cuba (639 words)

	Santiago de Cuba Museums
		Built between 1800 and 1830 in the fashion of the time in Santiago (walls made of intertwined flexible twigs covered with lime and sand), this modest house was the birthplace, on June 14, 1845, of Antonio Maceo y Grajales.
		This fortress, erected on a cliff at the entrance of the bay in the 17th century, was built precisely to defend the city from the filibusters.
		The Siboney Farm is located on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba; it was chosen as the staging point by the members of the commando that was to attack the Moncada Garrison on July 26, 1953.
	www.1click2cuba.com /ACTIVITIES/ART-MUSEUMS/STOmuseums.html (1430 words)

	Learn Spanish in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
		Not only is Cuba a beautiful country, it also has a population that is very friendly and hospitable in spite of recent economic difficulties.
		Santiago de Cuba is Cuba's second largest city and a strong rival to Havana in literature, music and politics.
		Santiago de Cuba has a thick Spanish colonial air without the American high-rise buildings from the 1950s one finds in Havana.
	www.donquijote.org /english/la/santiagodecuba.asp (436 words)

	SAA - Painters of Santiago, Cuba Start Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The second largest city in Cuba, it is nestled in the Sierra Maestra Valley on a bay inlet marked by high bluffs rising up to 200 feet from the sea.
		Santiago is an agricultural and mining region which exports copper, iron, manganese, sugar, fruit, and wood.
		In addition, Santiago was a focal point of the Spanish-American War, and many reminders of that conflict can still be found in the area.
	www.salemart.org /cuba.htm (397 words)

	Santiago de Cuba News
		Santiago de Cuba, Oct 23 A funerary monument will set the image of popular Cuban musician Compay Segundo forever in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba, where he was born in 1907, his son Salvador...
		Santiago de Cuba, Sep 5 Cuba: in the Heart of the Revolution is the title of the book launched this month in France that deals with historic and daily matters of the Cuban reality.
		Santiago de Cuba, Aug 29 At 99 percent capacity, Santiago de Cuba s reservoirs have reached their greatest amount of dammed water since 1930, an achievement helped by the passage of Tropical Storm Ernesto.
	www.topix.net /cu/santiago-de-cuba (674 words)

	USA CUBA TRAVEL: A Destination & Travel Guide to Santiago de Cuba.
		Santiago is the hottest city on the island, offering the most intense blue sea, and the most flavorful arrays of fruit, and is also proud to be the birthplace of the daiquiri, one of the ten most famous cocktails in the world.
		Santiago residents will speak of the "cutara" (sandal), a type of slipper or shoe; they’ll say "pluma" for "llave de agua", a water tap and part of household installations; and "balance", instead of "sillón", to refer to a rocking chair with arms.
		Excellent tourist facilities and the permanent smile of Santiago’s residents guarantee a pleasant stay in this eastern province, where to order a "macho asado" is to savor the most exquisite form of pork in Cuba, accompanied by a cold beer amidst the typical heat of Santiago.
	www.usacubatravel.com /santiago.htm (457 words)

	Santiago de Cuba Hotels
		Located to 62 km of the international airport of Santiago of Cuba, in total wooded surroundings of attractive species of the local flora and fauna.
		In the Santiago Vista Alegre district, 14 km.
		In few minutes the center of Santiago of Cuba is reached, where the possibility is had of crossing numerous sites of historical interest, cultural and recreational.
	www.cuba.tc /Santiago/CubaSantiagoHotels.html (883 words)

	Cuba.com.:.Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cuba has no plants or animals that are lethal to humans (Yes, this includes poisonous snakes!) The mountain ranges include the Sierra Maestra to the East, the Cordillera de los Organos to the West, and the Sierra del Escambray in the central region.
		The economy of Cuba is based on state ownership with some small scale private enterprise existing at the fringes.
		Tourism has become one of the largest sources of income for Cuba, and in 1993 the U.S. dollar was made legal tender (the country operated under a dual-currency system); this arrangement was, however, revoked on 25 October 2004.
	www.cuba.com (481 words)

	Santiago de Cuba : In Depth \| Frommers.com
		Each of the 29 generals during the 30-year war against the Spanish came from the city, and the Bay of Santiago was the site of the 1898 naval battles between the U.S. and Spain.
		Assassinated by the Batista army in the streets of Santiago, he became a martyr of the Revolution.
		Castro returned from exile in Mexico to wage war from the cover of the Sierra Maestra, west of Santiago, and 2 years later the rebel leader ultimately announced victory, on January 1, 1959, from the balcony of the governor's mansion (today Town Hall) in Parque Céspedes.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/santiagodecuba/3175010012.html (387 words)

	CBC News In Depth: Cuba
		Cuba was held by the Spanish, the British and then the Spanish again, until it gained independence in 1898 after a three-year war with Spain.
		Cuba became a playground for the rich, most of whom were American.
		This was critical to Cuba's survival in the wake of Washington's attempt to impose a trade embargo on the island.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/cuba (1911 words)

	Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
		Nowadays, Santiago is a friendly, tropical city of about 500,000 inhabitants and is generally considered to be the cradle of the revolution as it was in this city and the surrounding mountains and countryside that popular support grew for Fidel and his men in the fifties.
		Santiago is also undoubtedly the home of traditional Cuban music, particularly son and danzon, Much of Cuba's distinctive Afro-Haitian style of music and dance developed here and Santiago is the ideal place to listen to live music and learn how to celebrate life the Cuban way.
		Santiago is the place to be in July with two major annual cultural festivals taking place in this month.
	www.ihes.com /cuba/santiago.html (486 words)

	Study Spanish in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
		With 420,000 inhabitants, Santiago de Cuba is the country's second largest city and Havana's long-time rival in literature, music and politics.
		Located on the southeast end of the island, Santiago de Cuba has a thick Spanish colonial air unspoiled by the imposing presence of the 1950s American high-rises ones finds in Havana.
		Santiago's fine arts academies have contributed to making Santiago de Cuba what it is today: the birthplace of eminent musicians, a true cultural centre and, historically, one of the most important cities in the Americas.
	www.donquijote.org /english/la/city.santiagodecuba.asp (280 words)

	Santiago de Cuba, city for vacations in Cuba.
		Santiago de Cuba, hot destination, with a city hotel and other attractions as Tropicana night Club.
		Melia Santiago de Cuba hotel, is ideal city hotel, with entertainments for Cuba vacation, Ideal city hotel for Cuba vacations.
		Santiago de Cuba, the second largest city and also the most Caribbean, has its own musical rhythm and pace.
	www.solmeliacuba.com /destiny/index.php?destiny=5 (391 words)

	Santiago de Cuba, Travel agency to Cuba: flights, hotels, cars, vacation packages, scuba diving, cruise and maps.
		Santiago is Cuba's second largest city and has an eclectic collection of architectural styles, ranging from colonial to art deco.
		Because of its location, Santiago has received many waves of immigrants; it was the first city in Cuba where African slaves were brought.
		The Moncada barracks, just outside Santiago, were the sight of the first attack by Castro and his forces on July 26, 1953.
	www.cubalinda.com /English/Destinations/SantiagodeCuba.asp (491 words)

	Pope Advocates Freedoms in Santiago / AP - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		ANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) - Pope John Paul II today delivered the most direct political message yet in his pilgrimage to Cuba, advocating freedom of expression and of association for the island's people.
		Tens of thousands turned out for the Mass in Santiago, a center of Cuban nationalism, for a Mass dedicated to Cuba's patron saint and potent symbol of patriotism, the Virgin of Charity.
		On the fourth day of his historic first visit to Cuba, the pope was visiting leprosy and AIDS patients at a shrine and clinic on Havana's outskirts.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y98/jan98/24e1.htm (1022 words)

	The Naval Battle at Santiago during the Spanish-American War
		The Spanish were nearly surrounded at Santiago with 16,000 Americans to the east, General Garcia and his 3,000 Cuban insurgents to the west, and the harbor blockaded by the US Navy to the south.
		His hopes of scuttling his flagship were thwarted by the fires that prevented surviving sailors from reaching the sea cocks that would flood the vessel and send it to the bottom.
		No account of the naval battle at Santiago can be completed however, without consideration of the empathy of the victors in the aftermath, or the dignity of the vanquished in their defeat.
	www.homeofheroes.com /wallofhonor/spanish_am/12_santiago.html (6141 words)

	The Battle of Santiago de Cuba
		The objective of the Americans was to protect the United States and her forces, and to eliminate the threat of the Spanish Naval Squadron.
		He knew Cuba, as he was assigned to the West Indian Station during the first Cuban revolt of 1868-78, and his career had sent him all the way to the Philippines on the other side of the world as well.
		The problem that both navies faced was that if they were to sail across the Atlantic with one of their forces, they would be confronted with the combined and concentrated forces of their opponent in home waters.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/History/Santiago.htm (11624 words)

	Comer en Santiago, Cuba! - SalsaPower.com
		The best place to eat Cuban food in Santiago, Cuba without paying a fortune is at the Casa del Chef, located inside the Mambí Restaurant.
		Santiago Savigne les invita y además le podrá coordinar una estancia agradable en cualquiera de esos lugares si le contactan en la Casa del Chef (Teléfono: 641939).
		Santiago Savigne invites you to enjoy your stay by dining at any of the places listed above, as well as being able to coordinate special events if you contact him in advance by phone at the Casa del Chef (Telephone: 641939).
	www.salsapower.com /cities/cuba_santiago_food.htm (382 words)

	Cuba Museums - Santiago de Cuba - Provincial Museum “Emilio Bacardí” - Museum Cuban Historical Ambience - Granjita ...
		Many historians categorically agree on the fact that the building that houses the museum was the residence of the Spanish conqueror Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in the city of Santiago de Cuba.
		It is located across from the historical Céspedes Park and it exhibits fine furniture of the 16 th century together with exquisite collections of highly valuable porcelain and glassware.
		The farm was the departing place of the men that, headed by Fidel Castro, would attack the Moncada garrison, the second military fortress in the city of Santiago de Cuba, on July 26 th, 1953.
	www.cuba-museums.com /en/santiago.asp (460 words)

	new Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - Travel Tips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Santiago de Cuba is the second largest and most Caribbean city of Cuba and offers you colonial buildings, different museums and revolutionary monuments.
		Santiago 1900 (entre Bartolomé Maso y Hartmann) looks very expensive with the big hall, but is cheap (+/- 0,4 USD for pizza, 0,65 USD for steak).
		Transport back to Santiago de Cuba is difficult, certainly when the common bus went broke or doesn’t come anyway.
	www.1000traveltips.org /santiago.htm (1840 words)

	Santiago de Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His charter operation in Port Antonio fishes the northeast coast of Jamaica in the Cayman Trench to the banks surrounding the island for blue marlin, tuna, wahoo and dolphin.
		Upon arrival late in the afternoon, we were given a warm welcome and harbor navigational instructions via radio from the marina personnel.
		If you plan a visit to Santiago de Cuba, be sure to stop by their sister city (and my home port) Port Antonio, Jamaica, only 120 nm away.
	www.bluewaterweb.com /Newsletters/5-01cubacapt.asp (621 words)

	Santiago de Cuba - GoCuba.ca - Cuba Tourist Board in Canada
		Cuba's second largest city, Santiago de Cuba, is the most “Caribbean” of the island’s cities, greatly influenced by immigration and trade from other Caribbean islands.
		Founded by Spanish conquistadors in 1515, Santiago de Cuba’s revolutionary past has been scarred by pirate attacks, Spanish domination and US military intervention.
		Santiago's colourful carnivals, with their congas and festivities of true Caribbean flavour, are famous here.
	www.gocuba.ca /en/destination_stgo_de_cuba.asp (498 words)

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