Clandestine Fight Museum, Tívoli
Visit the fascinating Clandestine Fight Museum to discover the different aspects of the Revolution in Santiago de Cuba.
Clandestine Fight Museum
© Arnaud Z Voyage
Located in the Loma del Intendente Hill, in the Tívoli, the Clandestine Fight Museum (Museo de la Lucha Clandestina) was a police station attacked by the activists 26th July Movement in 1956 to distract the attention of the authorities during the Landing in Granma.
The building was on its beginning a dwelling built at the beginning of the 19th century in a Prebaroque style and inhabited by different families between 1865 and 1935. Once in the decade of 1940, the building was used as High School, becoming a police station in 1951. After the assault, the whole wooden structure was burned remaining just the masonry walls, among which the museum was set up.
Among the two roofs of the museum, are spread the four permanent exhibition rooms in which objects related to the Revolution and the role of Santiago the Cuba on it are exhibited. It is specially shown the roles Frank País and Celia Sánchez in the revolutionary fight.
Discover the history of the Revolution in this fascinating museum through the documents, pictures and other objects used by the main protagonists of the 26th July Movement.
More information:
Location:
Calle General Jesús Rabí, 1. El Tívoli. Santiago de Cuba.
Ticket Price:
1 CUC
Opening Hours:
From Tuesday to Saturday 9 am - 5 pm
Interactive map:
Santiago de Cuba
What to see:
- Céspedes Park
- Calle Heredia Street
- Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Cathedral
- Velázquez Balcony
- Casa de la Trova
- Model of the City
- Plaza de Dolores Square
- Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores Church
- Plaza de Marte Square
- Provincial Government Palace
- Tívoli
- Escalinata Padre Pico Highway
- Cuartel Moncada Headquarters
- Plaza de la Revolución
- Pioneers’ Palace
- La Gran Piedra
- Cumbre La Gran Piedra Summit
- Cafetal La Isabelica Coffee Plantation
- Parque Baconao
- Baconao Aquarium
- Baconao Lagoon
- Granma Cay
- Siboney
- El Cobre
- Nuestra Señora del Cobre Basilica
- Chivirico and its Vicinity
- Pico Turquino Peak Area
- Pico Turquino
Beaches:
Museums:
- Museum of Historical Cuban Atmosphere
- Archdiocesan Museum
- Municipal Museum Emilio Bacardí Moreau
- El Carnaval Museum
- Rum Museum
- Clandestine Fight Museum
- Casa-Natal de Antonio Maceo Birth House Museum
- Abel Santamaría Historic Park
- San Juan Historic Park and the Peace Tree
- Cemetery of Santa Ifigenia
- Castle of San Pedro de la Roca del Morro
- Granjita Siboney Museum
- Spanish-Cuban-American War Museum
- Prehistory Valley
- Monument to Cimarrón
Other nearby destinations:
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