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Prior to the revolution, the east of Cuba was a single province known simply as Oriente (“East”), and most Cubans still refer to the region with this name.
Oriente incorporates the post-revolutionary provinces of Holguín, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantánamo, which are scenically and historically more interesting than most of central Cuba.
Like the Boquería, the Hotel Oriente, and other Rambla landmarks, this square came into being as a result of the destruction of a convent, when church properties were expropriated in an anti-clerical period in the mid-19th century.
The wars of independence began in Oriente in the 1860s, and nearly a century later Castro concentrated his power base in the inaccessible Sierra Maestra.
Some of Cuba’s best beaches lie on the north coast of Oriente within sight of the mountains.