Beth and I took a nice quiet back road to Cardenas from our hotel in Varadero. It's about a 40 km round trip. There is lots to explore in Cardenas, especially along its main street.
Here is some of the history of Cardenas courtesy of Wikipedia.
The Cuban Flag was first raised over Cuba in this historic city of straight and narrow streets (the "Charleston of the Caribbean"), horse-drawn carriages, industry and "cangrejos" (blue crabs). It was in Cárdenas where José Arechabala launched and started production of Havana Club rum in 1934.
The city was not laid out in the traditional central-plaza Spanish custom, but rather, inspired by a North American perpendicular grid pattern, modeled on the city of Charleston, South Carolina, with the help of American (Confederate) landscape engineers.
In 1850, the Venezuelan General Narciso López, along with some Americans and Cuban exiles (including Gonzales), landed here on a filibustering expedition, and held the town for a few hours, abandoning it when he saw that the people would not rise to support him in his efforts to secure Cuban independence. López did, however, raise for the first time the modern Flag of Cuba, designed by him along with a local Cuban Miguel Teurbe Tolon.
In the late 19th century and early 20th Century, Cárdenas was one of the main sugar-exporting towns of Cuba and had received a great influx of European immigrants, including from Ireland, France, Italy, and Corsica - many Cárdenas families were known for having foreign-sounding surnames, such as Jones, Larrieu, Smith, Villa-Giorgi and Sterling, among others.
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