Valley of the Sugar Mills

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The Valley of the Sugar Mills is located only 12 kilometers from our hostel in Trinidad de Cuba in the province of Sancti Spirits and north, with an approximate area of 276 km2, and consists of small units such as: the San Luis Valley, The Santa Rosa, the second third of Agabama, Meyer depression. Surrounded by other geographic features such as mountains of aracas, the southern plains and the coastal strip, which make their immediate environment. In this valley of Trinidad, Cuba's natural heritage, focusing on its high landscape values, the abundance of landforms and the presence of various locations, soil types and flora and fauna. From the standpoint of architectural, archaeological and cultural treasures valley important testimonies of traditional and industrial architecture with different levels of conservation. Examples are found in homes estates Buena Vista, Guaimaro Manacas-Iznaga, and other delights. The Sugar Mill Valley and San Luis Valley, as it is also called, is a real archaeological monument of the city of Trinidad, Cuba and here feature the sugar industry, which led activity and economic development marked a stage of history our Cuba. In the Valley ruins are preserved numerous facilities such as mills, barracks, summer houses and others are today living memory of a history of more than four centuries The three valleys, San Luis, Santa Rosa and Meyer in the late 18th century and early 19th, was a center of sugar production, and its mills were enslaved more than 30,000 people, brought from Africa.

 The Valle de los Ingenios (Valley of the Sugar Mills) located in the south-central Cuban city of Trinidad. This 104 square mile area includes three valleys: San Luis, Santa Rosa and Meyer, in an area where the extraordinary development of the Cuban sugar industry began in the 18th century. In that valley still remain the ruins of the numerous sugar refineries that once gave such splendor to the area but which today constitute little more than archaeological artifacts of that industry. One of the best places conserved in the valley are the main house of the sugar magnate Manacas Iznaga and a tower of the same name, which according to legend was built by the owner to keep watch on the slaves working in the sugarcane plantations.