Remedios, Cuba


Remedios, a city of approximately 25 000 people is officially listed as the eighth
Spanish settlement in Cuba. However, local people claim that it was the third
settlement but its existence was concealed to avoid the payment of taxes to Spain.

    
The main cathedral.

    
This virgin from the Chapel of the Travellers is temporarily stored in the main Cathedral.
The Virgin was donated by fisherman as an expression of gratitude for surviving a fierce storm.
Placed in the main cathedral, the Virgin repeatedly reappeared in home of the fisherman. Eventually
it was decided to build a church on the location that had, apparently, been chosen by the Virgin.


A horse drawn cart delivers bottled drinks to a store on the central square of Remedios.

Cayo Santa Maria | Caibarien | Remedios | Camajuani | Santa Clara
 


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The background design is from a photograph taken in the courtyard of the hotel in Remedios.


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