Toma del Tren Blindado Monument, Santa Clara
Discover a piece of Cuba’s revolutionary history by exploring the carriages of the Tren Blindado
Toma del Tren Blindado Monument
© Guillaume Baviere
The Monumento a la Toma del Tren Blindado (Toma del Tren Blindado Monument) is found to the east of Vidal Park where a very important event took place during the Battle of Santa Clara, when Ernesto Che Guevara and a group of young revolutionaries derailed an armored train with a borrowed digger and homemade molotov cocktails. This brought an end to the Batista dictatorship and the beginning of the socialist regime of Fidel Castro.
This event is commemorated with a museum of freight cars on the other side of the river, marking the place where the train derailed and 350 armed soldiers were tossed over. The famous digger is also memorialised there.
Some blocks to the east of the Tren Blindado, the “Che con Niño” statue shows Che Guevara holding a baby, symbolizing the following generation.
More information:
Location:
Carretera a Camajuaní entre Puente la Cruz y línea del ferrocarril, Santa Clara, Cuba.
Ticket price for the Freight Cars Museum:
1 CUC.
Opening hours:
Mondays through Saturdays from 8:30am to 5:30pm.
Interactive map:
Villa Clara
What to see:
- Hanabanilla Lake
- Santa Clara
- Leoncio Vidal Park
- Loma del Capiro
- Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen Church
- Toma del Tren Blindado Monument
- Ernesto Che Guevara Monument
- Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Buen Viaje Church
- Santa Clara Cathedral
- El Bosque Zoological Garden (Camilo Cienfuegos)
- La Caridad Theater
- Provincial Palace and José Martí Provincial Library
- Iglesia de San Juan Bautista Church and Iglesia del Buen Viaje Church
- Remedios
- Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista Church and Nuestra Señora del Buen Viaje Church
- Rubén M. Villena Theater
- Caibarién
- Northern Cay Group
- El Pedraplén
- Cayo Las Brujas
- Petrolero San Pascual Oil Tanker
- Cayo Santa María
- Delfinario de Cayo Santa María
- Cayo Ensenachos
- Cayo Conuco
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