Cardenas

Cardenas , Calle Calzada Cardenas is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba, about 116 km by means of air 156 km by road east of Havana. Cardenas is the fifteenth maximum-populated Cuban metropolis and the second most populated one no longer being a provincial seat, after Manzanillo. The Cuban Flag turned into first raised over Cuba on this historic metropolis of heterosexual and slim streets, horse-drawn carriages, industry and "cangrejos". Cardenas is a maritime port city on the extent and quite marshy shore of a spacious bay of the northern coast of the island, sheltered by using an extended promontory.

The metropolis lies between the sea and hills. A huge amount of asphalt has been taken from the bed of the harbour. A flow of clean water from the mattress of the harbour is some other odd function; it possibly comes from the shops of subterranean rivers. There are mainly slender streets, numerous squares and good sized and fashionable commercial enterprise and public homes, consisting of the ornate parish church designed via Architect Rafael Carrera, who additionally constructed the famous Palacio Aldama in Central Havana.