Las Tunas and Playa Covarrubias

A Long Undeveloped North Coast Beach With An Offshore Reef, In The Province That Calls Itself The Capital Of Sculpture And Holds Cuba'S National Festival Of Country Music · Las Tunas, Las Tunas

Las Tunas is the province almost everybody drives through on the way between Camaguey and Holguin, and it knows it. The city has responded by covering itself in sculpture - more than a hundred pieces around the streets and the Fuente de las Antillas on its edge - and by hosting the Jornada Cucalambeana each summer, the national festival of the decima and of punto, the improvised sung poetry of the Cuban countryside that UNESCO listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2017. It is named for a nineteenth-century local poet and it is the real thing rather than a show for visitors. The other reason to stop is an hour north: Playa Covarrubias, a long white beach with a reef a few hundred metres offshore, one small hotel, and nobody else on it. The honest offer in this province is that and the festival, rather than any list of sights - which is also why a foreign visitor here is still unusual enough to be greeted rather than sold to, and why it makes a far better overnight stop than the drive between Camaguey and Holguin suggests.

Playa Covarrubias, Puerto Padre, Las Tunas, Las Tunas, Las Tunas, Cuba

Playa Covarrubias is public and open; the single all-inclusive there runs year round. Las Tunas city's museums and the Fuente de las Antillas keep ordinary daytime hours. THE JORNADA CUCALAMBEANA IS HELD EACH SUMMER, usually around late June or early July, at El Cornito outside the city; the dates are set locally each year. The city has the same daily power cuts as everywhere.

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