Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios

Cultural
Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
Photo: Dieter Mueller, dino1948 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Country Cuba
Year inscribed1988
Criteria(iv) (v)

Overview

Founded in the early 16th century in honour of the Holy Trinity, the city was a bridgehead for the conquest of the American continent. Its 18th- and 19th-century buildings, such as the Palacio Brunet and the Palacio Cantero, were built in its days of prosperity from the sugar trade.

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Source: UNESCO World Heritage List — CC BY-SA 4.0