In the recently held Cuban Coffee Cultural Landscape Seminar, a heritage for the future, in this city, this modality aimed at the enjoyment of history and ecology emerged as a project strengthened and ready for its insertion in the travel proposals for the Island, at the beginning of 2018
Santiago de Cuba, Dec 18 .- The promoter of nature tourism in Cuba, Ecotur, announced the beginning of the commercialization of the Ruta del Café project, which includes hiking and agricultural activities in areas of coffee tradition in the eastern provinces.
In the recently held Coffee Cultural Landscape Seminar, a heritage for the future, in this city, this modality aimed at the enjoyment of history and ecology emerged as a project strengthened and ready for its insertion in the travel proposals for the Island, at the beginning of 2018.
The work of the Center for Interpretation and Dissemination of the Coffee Cultural Heritage, known as Casa Dranguet, together with the Office of the City Curator (OCC) in Santiago de Cuba, the Belgian-French Malongo Foundation and the financing of the European Union, they were vital for the arrival to this phase.
Yaumara López, head of the Department of Archeology of the OCC, said that all the archaeological research, historical research and the restoration process were fundamental in creating the necessary infrastructure to place the route in the delight of foreigners and nationals, with the support from authorities and institutions.
Reina Iris Alayo, representative of the travel agency Ecotur in Santiago de Cuba, said that the International Event of Nature Tourism, Turnat, was vital for the consolidation of the project, as recognized by important entities of the leisure industry.
Also at the close of the Coffee Cultural Landscape Seminar, an exchange was held with managers to improve links, aimed at including in the itinerary the observation of a grain benefit plant and the Coffee Research Center, located in the municipality of Third Front.
Alayo said that these stations approved on the route will allow to see how much is left of the traditional in the current ways of harvesting and processing the popular infusion.
The Coffee Route is divided into two circuits, one in the mountain massif of the Gran Piedra which, in addition to the climbing to the monumental rock, offers the former hacienda of French settlers La Isabelica, and the visit to the La Siberia garden, where the tourists will carry out agro-tourism activities.
Meanwhile, the second journey includes the restored estates of Fraternidad, Santa Paulina, San Juan de Escocia and San Luis de Jacas, which involve a tour of the plateau of Santa María de Loreto.
The French Tomb, another of the legacies of Franco-Haitian culture in Santiago de Cuba and declared in 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, will be the conclusion of the journey
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