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Vedado’s top sight, though, is the Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón (Columbus Cemetery).
The silver-gilt key to the city, presented to Ferdinand by the vanquished Moors, may be seen in the treasury, along with a cross made from the first gold brought back by Cristobal Colón (Christopher Columbus) from the New World.
Some countries name their currency to honor people famous in their history: bolivar (Venezuela) for the liberator of South America, Simón Bolívar; sucre (Ecuador) for Antonio José de Sucre, chief lieutenant of Bolívar and liberator of what is now Ecuador at the battle of Pichincha in 1822 near Quito; colón (Costa Rica, El Salvador) for Christopher Columbus; balboa (Panama) for Vasco Núñez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean; lempira (Honduras) for the 16th-century Indian chief who is a national symbol of liberty and valor for resisting the Spanish advance; and córdoba (Nicaragua) for Francisco Hernández de Cór doba, first acting governor.
Farther north along the coast, just south of the small town of Aguada, is a monument commemorating the landing of Cristóbal Colón on the island in 1493.
Playa San Juan (between Playa de Américas and Los Gigantes) offers Nostramo, an original 1918 schooner; Playa de Américas/Los Cristianos has the only glass bottom catamaran in Puerto Colón: Tropical Delfin.