Home Cuba: east wind, west wind Trinidad's Golden Age is long gone, first based on precious metals, then on sugar cane and tobacco fields. The colonial city has become a little languid since the mid-nineteenth century, a fact that no tourist can complain about. It doesn't take much imagination to wander through its cobbled streets and find reminders of an almost intact past.

Trinidad's Golden Age is long gone, first based on precious metals, then on sugar cane and tobacco fields. The colonial city has become a little languid since the mid-nineteenth century, a fact that no tourist can complain about. It doesn't take much imagination to wander through its cobbled streets and find reminders of an almost intact past.

Many of the first settlers in Cienfuegos were French, coming from Bordeaux and Louisiana. Like Havana and Trinidad, Cienfuegos is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This port and commercial city flourished in the mid-19th century, and still retains the elegance of that period.