By Air

Camaguey has its own international airport, Ignacio Agramonte International Airport. Most tourists going or leaving to the Beach of Santa Lucia do so through the airport.

By Train

Camaguey is near the midpoint on the Havana to Santiago train line (about 10 hours from Havana). In addition to the daily overnight train running in both directions, there is also a daytime train running to/from Havana and Santa Clara on alternate days and another daytime train arriving from Santiago de Cuba on Thursdays and Sundays and returning on Mondays and Fridays.

Museo Provincial Ignacio Agramonte, The church of La Soledad, Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Casino Campestre

Museo Provincial Ignacio Agramonte

Is the historic center of the city, Camaguey's largest and most important museum houses the second-largest collection of paintings in Cuba, bettered only by the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana.The museum concentrates on Cuban fine arts (from the early 19th c. to contemporary works), but also packs in moderately interesting collections of natural history and archaeology. There is also a selection of decorative arts, including furnishings and porcelain from the colonial and Republican periods.The natural history rooms display native Cuban species, such as sharks, fish, and exotic fauna.These exhibits may be interesting for kids bored with Cuban history and fine art, but you've surely seen better.The building itself is worth a look around, as it features a handsome patio with a wealth of indigenous trees and tinajones (large ceramic pots).The museum was closed for much of 2008, but was due to be open by the time this guide went to print.

The church of La Soledad

Built in the years 1733 to 1736, stands majestically at the intersection of Republic Street (Queen) corner of Ignacio Agramonte (Estrada Palma), almost in front of the Plaza de la Soledad , known as the Square Gallo. Although the front develops a three-storey building, this does not prevent the tower is a benchmark for city dwellers and visitors. The building of the Historical Center that awarded the largest population of symbolic value.In the year 1697 was built at the north end of town - that marked the departure point for the dock at Jigüey - a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Solitude with a barrel of bricks and tiles 28 yards long, 8 wide and 7 high, the vestry at the side of the sanctuary and over a balcony room for the pastor and his servants, his two bells in timber, lacking tower. In 1701 was erected in the parish by the Bishop of Cuba Diego Evelino de Compostela. This church is one of the few buildings in Cuba and America in the eighteenth century, an outline of the center tower facade.

Church of Our Lady of Mercy

Located in the Plaza of the workers , stands the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, built in 1601 by monks of the order of Mercedarios a wood and thatched chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Altagracia, donated by John Greek, a resident of the village. It is surrounded by buildings from different centuries, most with more than one level, however, these buildings do not obstruct the visibility of the tower from different parts of the city. The stately facade is enhanced significantly to appear as visual closure of some streets and is slightly directed towards the Cathedral.A mid-seventeenth century was replaced by a modest building of solid walls was demolished in the period of Louis Unzaga government between 1744 and 1747 to begin building the current church, but in 1756 there was still a temporary temple wood-owned tower 35 meters high - not to be finished with three naves, brick walls and vaulted ceilings. By the mid eighteenth century the convent was a cloister with arcades of two levels, and the temple on the south side.

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