A center for the promotion, interpretation and investigation on the coffee heritage in Cuba will take place in Santiago de Cuba, in the former house of the landowner Carlos Dranguet.
Multiple choices to know about coffee and its mark in the history and culture of the southeastern region of the island, will be offered, such as graphic documents and other objects revealing on the history of coffee, mainly promoted by French-origin families who planted the seeds and developed the cultivations, will also be offered.
Located between this eastern province and Guantanamo, there are 171 former agricultural coffee empires declared a World Heritage Site and the OCC for an integrated management plan and management of the landscape that is organized in circuits.
The first, corresponding to the Gran Piedra, covers the coffee cultivations of La Idalia, Isabelica, La Gran Sofía, Las Mercedes and La Siberia, while the second, the Fraternity, includes the place with the same name, San Felipe, San Juan de Escocia , San Luis de Jacas and Santa Paulina.
Published by Sierra Maestra, Spanish version