TripAdvisor considers the second best beach on the planet, the Varadero beach, in Cuba
Havana, February 27.- The Web site of tourism TripAdvisor selected today as the second best beach in the world to Varadero, located about 140 kilometers east of Havana.
Considered the most important recreational pole of this country, Varadero is located in the Hicacos peninsula, on the north coast of the province of Matanzas, with a thousand 754 hectares of beach, 20 thousand 375 meters long of the sand, and an average width of 22 meters.
This spa began its
vertiginous development in the branch of leisure in the 1990s, but its official
foundation dates back to December 5, 1887. The aforementioned tourist resort
has about 20 thousand 600 hotel rooms and visited by more than one year million
travelers from all over the world.
In the list of TripAdvisor, the most relevant web in orientation to travelers on the planet, took the first place on the beach of Baia do Sancho, in Brazil, to take the third step Eagle Beach, on the Caribbean island of Aruba.
The US portal announced its Traveler's Choice Beaches 2019 awards, which are based on the quantity and quality of the services and beauty of the place.
The Baia do Sancho beach is located in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, 545 kilometers from Recife, in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
TripAdvisor again selected, for the third year in a row, the Spanish beach of La Concha (San Sebastian, northern Spain), as the best sand in Europe, and fourth in the world.
It is followed by the European Spiaggia dei Conigli, in Sicily (Italy), and the Portuguese Algarve, Falesia beach, while the Ses Illetes beach, on the Spanish island of Formentera, in the Balearic Mediterranean archipelago, is in fourth place .
This website recognized 352 beaches in total and produces a list of the 25 best beaches in the world, as well as specific classifications by continents and countries
Officially founded on December 5, 1887 by the communal merger named Los Decembrinos, in Varadero several wooden houses and Spanish tiles were manufactured, and then the site was known to start, above all, the boom of the rowing regattas, shells and snails .
In addition, this spa has 15 archaeological sites, such as caves and grottos, which served as a refuge, whose most visited vestige today is the cave of Ambrosio, on the south coast of the peninsula.
This was territory for salt mines, from 1587 and until 1961, when this production was closed, and in 1976 it acquired the status of municipality.
Recently, the International Hotel of Varadero opened its doors, in its most recent version, moved from the first line of the beach to protect the dune and the environment
The first hotel of
the place was the Varadero, with 10 rooms, built in 1915 and nine years later
it became Club Náutico de Varadero.
