Comandancia de la Plata

Comandancia de la Plata was the guerrilla headquarters Fidel Castro erected in 1958 when fighting against the Batista administration, perched atop a rocky range generally shrouded in mist. It takes four hours to get there through the woods, but it's probably worth it because the camp is almost exactly how Fidel left it. Casa de Fidel (Fidel's House) is undoubtedly the most popular attraction, with seven secret escape routes. There's also a museum, a radio facility where rebel transmissions were broadcast, insurgent cottages, and Che Guevara's crude hospital.

In Comandancia de la Plata, the small museum near the complex's entrance, the masterfully designed Casa de Fidel with its seven hidden escape routes in case the revolution's leaders were discovered, and the steep climb up Radio Rebelde to the radio-communications buildings where the revolution's early broadcasts were aired are all highlights. The hospital structures, a stark reminder of the savagery of guerilla medical care, are located far below on a different trail (placed here to keep the injured from revealing the camp's location in their misery).

Location: Gran Parque Nacional Sierra Maestra