Visited in January 2023.

The historic city, which was plundered even by Henry Morgan, but was added to the heritage list, as if because of its unique layout. There is a legend that the planning of streets and alleys of the city was specially made confusing, similar to a labyrinth, so that pirates would get lost in it. But if you put aside the legends, the layout here is like that of an ordinary historical European city. Usually, the Spanish built cities in their colonies with an irregular layout only in areas with complex relief, and they used their favorite grid method on flat surfaces. Camagüey is a rare colonial exception, which, together with the scale of the old city, makes it an good example of the transfer of European medieval urban planning traditions and techniques to the New World.

In my opinion, the city here stands out as the center of Catholicism in Cuba, with an ensemble of active churches, it is not for nothing that John Paul II visited this city during his historic visit to Cuba in 1998.