Sancti Spíritus

Sights in Sancti Spiritus include:

The bridge over the Rio Yayabo, built by the Spanish in 1815

Museo de Arte Colonial, just north of the bridge, which displays 19th Century furniture in a huge house that once belonged to the Valle-Iznaga family

Street market along Calle Llano, which is paved with cobblestones just east of the museo de Arte Colonial

Fundacion de la Naturaleza y El Hombre, located off the Parque Maceo in the northern part of the city centre, which documents the 17,422-km canoe trip from Equador to Barbados led by Cuban writer Antonio Nunez Jimenez in 1987.