Trinidad, located in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, was founded in the early 16th century but owes its existence and its historical raison d’être to the sugar industry that flourished there and in the nearby Valley de los Ingenios (Valley of the Sugar Mills) from the late 18th century to the late 19th century. The exemplary city of Trinidad’s prosperity during this period is clearly legible in its existing built environment, its buildings ranging in expression from modest, vernacular variants to elaborate, luxurious edifices. The Valley de los Ingenios is a remarkable testimony to the development of the sugar industry. A living museum of Cuban sugar production, it includes the sites of 75 former cane sugar mills, plantation houses, barracks and other facilities related to this vulnerable industry, which has witnessed a gradual and progressive decline.

Specialized guided tour by an academic architect, but also private meetings with professionals more relevant around architect and restoration projects from City's Conservator Office in Trinidad. The most spectacular colonial architecture. Trinidad’s urban ensemble of domestic buildings has an exceptional typological continuity and homogeneity in terms of construction and design, in a vernacular fashion nuanced by small- to medium-sized lots, in which early 18th century buildings strongly marked by Andalusian and Moorish influences blend harmoniously with more elaborate 19th-century models that splendidly mix European neoclassical forms, superimposed on traditional spatial patterns. The heart of the 37-ha historic centre is Plaza Mayor, on which, overlooked by the campanile of the Convento de San Francisco, stand two noteworthy edifices: the Palacio Brunet, which provides the most authentic picture of the golden age of the city; and the neoclassical-style Palacio Cantero, which now houses the municipal history museum. In addition to its architecture, much of Trinidad’s urban fabric, including the irregular system of squares and plazas, cobblestone streets and other historical and urban elements, has been preserved.

UNESCO declared Trinidad (the third Spanish settlement in Cuba) to be part of the world cultural heritage in 1998 for its colonial architecture, dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Trinidad was founded on December 23, 1514 by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar with the name of Villa de la Santísima Trinidad. A city in the province of Sancti Spíritus, central region of Cuba. Trinidad is classified as one of the best preserved colonial cities in America, where stone streets, red roofs, stained glass windows, interior courtyards and palaces, many of them converted into museums, prevail. In September 2018, Trinidad received the status of ‘Craft City of the World’, because of its traditional crafts, with their distinctive features, of embroidery, crochet and lacemaking, basketry and ceramics. Moreover, in October 2019, has been designated as UNESCO Creative Cities.

Twelve kilometres northeast of Trinidad are three interconnected rural valleys – San Luis, Santa Rosa and Meyer – that make up the 225-km2 Valley de los Ingenios (Valley of the Sugar Mills). More than fifty sugar mills were in operation here at the industry’s peak in the 19th century, and in 1827 more than 11,000 slaves were working in the mills. A long, gradual decline in Cuba's sugar industry accelerated significantly in the 1990s. The former plantations, mill buildings and other facilities and archaeological sites in the Valley de los Ingenios represent the richest and best-preserved testimony of the Caribbean sugar agro-industrial process of the 18th and 19th centuries, and of the slavery phenomenon associated with it. Desglose de fotografías

Twenty kilometers from Trinidad is Topes de Collantes, a natural reserve park in the Sierra del Escambray in Cuba. It also refers to the third highest mountain in the reserve, where there is a small town and tourist center, which share the same name. Topes de Collantes, literally Altísimos Collantes, almost 800 meters (2,600 feet) above sea level, along with the peak of Potrerillo, 931 meters (3,054 feet) and the highest peak of San Juan, 1,140 meters (3,740 feet) find in the Sierra del Escambray.