Papis Cuban Grill

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The Vuelta Abajo region is the greatest tobacco producer of the world. Pinar del Rio and San Luis Guane are the highest quality tobacco leaves destined to the export. The coffee production, introduced in the 19th century in Rosario mountain range by the French, fell in declivity with the expansion of sugar cane production. In the San Cristobal, Candelaria, and Bahia Honda y Vinales counties there is still an impressive landscape formed by coffee plantations.

Founded in 1514 on the site of a native Taíno settlement, Villa de la Santísima Trinidad was the fourth of Diego Velázquez's original seven villas. Trinidad quickly grew and later prospered in princely fashion from the sugar-cane industry concentrated in the outlying Valle de los Ingenios. The sugar boom that took root by the mid-1700s created a coterie of wealthy local sugar barons, who built magnificent estates in the valley and manor houses in town and imported thousands of African slaves to work the fields. Trinidad's golden age, though, proved to be short-lived. Slave uprisings on plantations, intense European competition, and, finally, independence struggles throughout the Caribbean all took their toll on the Cuban sugar industry.

The colonial town of Cienfuegos was founded in 1819 in the Spanish territory but was initially settled by immigrants of French origin. It became a trading place for sugar cane, tobacco and coffee. Situated on the Caribbean coast of southern-central Cuba at the heart of the country’s sugar cane, mango, tobacco and coffee production area, the town first developed in the neoclassical style. It later became more eclectic but retained a harmonious overall townscape.pFounded in 1515 by Spanish settlers, Santiago de Cuba ("Santiago") was the island’s first capital, and remained so until 1550. Regarded by many to be the "Capital of the Caribbean," Santiago is Havana’s rival with respect to politics, music, and culture. In fact, the foundations for most of the cultural movements that would later become popular in the Caribbean can be traced to Santiago.

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