Siboney farms, Santiago de Cuba

Get to know Siboney farms, a museum that relives the assault on the Moncada Barracks, a key event in the history of Cuba

Siboney farms, Santiago de Cuba
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Siboney farms, located on the road that runs from Santiago de Cuba to Siboney, is a house museum that was the scene of one of the most important historical events in Cuba. Preparations for the capture of the Moncada Barracks took place in this house on July 26, 1953.

This property and its characteristic facade painted white and red is one of the key points to understand the course of the Cuban Revolution. The house was built in 1945 as a second home and named Villa Blanca by a merchant from Santiago de Cuba. In 1953, Fidel Castro and Ernesto Adolfo Tizol Aguilera found it and thought that it was a great place to carry out the preparation for the assault on the Moncada. They manage to rent it and there they finalize all the details for the action that would initiate the revolution against the Batista regime and that would be unsuccessful, the young people who participated in it were terribly massacred.

In 1965 this space became a museum due to its great importance in the future of the Cuban nation and in 1979 it was named a National Monument. The exhibition has seven rooms where it is possible to recreate the history of this attack through documents, photographs and real objects that were used in the assault such as a rifle, riles, uniforms stained with blood and personal belongings of some of the participants.

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Location:

Carretera hacia Playa Siboney, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

Hours:

Mondays from 9.00 to 13.00 h

Tuesdays to Saturdays from 9.00 to 17.00 h

Price of entry:

1 CUC (0,89 €) ($1.06)

Interactive map:

Santiago de Cuba

What to see:

Museums:

Siboney

Parque Baconao (Baconao Park)

El Cobre

Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Cobre

Pico Turquino

Museo de la Plata (Silver Museum)

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