| Cuba is an island that has many places to explore | | | | for the communication between Havana and |
| during your holidays and thousands of marvels to see | | | | Matanzas was officially settled. |
| and to discover. One of this wonders is the | | | | This impressive step that is 18 kilometers away to the |
| Bacunayagua Bridge, built in the borders of Havana | | | | west of the city of Matanzas and it establishes the |
| Province and Matanzas. | | | | territorial limit with the county of Havana. To the north |
| Matanzas had the opportunity to inaugurate in the first | | | | of the bridge, the immense sea is sighted; the channel |
| year of the Revolution the longest and highest bridge in | | | | and the outlet of what should be the bed of a mighty |
| Cuba until that moment. Its construction is historically a | | | | river in a remote time, and to the south, the extensive |
| crisscross with the Via Blanca (the highway that | | | | and exuberant Valley of Yumurí. |
| connects Havana City and Varadero), begun by | | | | The importance of that crossing for the Via Blanca |
| Carlos Prío Socarrás´ government, with the | | | | resides in that is the nearest and direct connection, for |
| purpose of shortening the distance between Matanzas | | | | the beautiful landscape of the Cuban north coast, |
| and Havana. A total of 41 columns sustains the bridge | | | | between the Tunnel of the capital of the country and |
| of Bacunayagua, those that were in its moment the | | | | the City Spa of Varadero. |
| most slender in the world made of concrete. | | | | The beauty of the environment of Bacunayagua, |
| In 1957 the works of construction of the bridge began, | | | | favored by the execution of that advanced project, |
| classified during that time as a colossal work, not only | | | | alternates with multitude of headlands, hillsides and |
| for its extension but for the height on an immense cliff. | | | | mangroves, natural refuge of great ornithological |
| Its columns possess a pile of 22.50 meters each one, | | | | importance where 74 species of birds cohabit with 16 |
| with a width of a meter for 1.60 meters, and some | | | | of reptiles and eight of amphibians. In the ecosystem |
| reach the 42 meters high. | | | | of swamp of this area vegetable formations appear |
| On its bolsters there are 6 beams that weigh each | | | | as the heath coastal xeroformo and the forest |
| one 47 tons, and that they were fused in the same | | | | semideciduo, besides a rich and varied fauna with high |
| place the bridge was being built. In total the bridge has | | | | percent of endemism. |
| a height 103 meters, with a longitude 314 meters and a | | | | The magnitude and splendid image of the place can be |
| width of 17. On September26, 1959, Fidel Castro Ruz | | | | appreciated perfectly from the Mirador, located in an |
| and Celia Sanchez inspected the works, the crossing | | | | elevation to the end west of the wonderful work. This |
| for the splendid bridge constituted the moment in that | | | | is a unique invitation you must take during your holidays |
| the road was inaugurated; although it did not go up to | | | | in the island. |
| October of that year, when the opening of the paths | | | | |