According guides from the Cuban Ministry of Tourism (Mintur), those criteria are based on surveys carried out among vacationers visiting the country.

Cayo Santa Maria means beauty and adventure, they said. A landscape with an adequate infrastructure and a cuisine that highlights traditional recipes, it also includes safety due to the health situation caused by Covid-19.

An extremely heavenly site, environmentally preserved, and a hotel and service structure that surprises the most demanding tourists, in the perfect combination of landscape and comfort, an additional impulse from high-quality nautical recreation.

It is an islet of white fine sand and crystal-clear waters, a characteristic that is present on other keys, no less famous, in its surroundings, as is the case of Ensenachos and Las Brujas, whose suggestive names attract the most skeptical holidaymakers.

The ideal way to get there is through a 48-kilometer-long causeway over the sea, which starts in the town of Caibarien, in the north of central province Villa Clara province.

Another novelty of these places is that they are the only three Cuban islets interconnected by a causeway.

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