Vintage Cars, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Santiago de Cuba is perhaps the most African, the most musical and the most passionate city in Cuba. In 1930, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca likened it to 'a harp made of living branches, a caiman, a tobacco flower'. Except for the odd modern building, Sanitago has not altered much since those days and around every corner you see these fantastic examples of the vintage cars for which Cuba has become renowned.

This is a city where the heat - and the hills - mean that people move to a slow rythmn. It is a lively, exciting place, where festivities and dancing are celebrated with fervour, never more so than during Carnival.

Sanitago's citizens also take pride in the fact that Santiago is called the 'Cradle of the Revolution'. Sandwiched between the Sierra Maestra mountains and the sea, this is the second city in Cuba.