Sculpture of Ché Guevara

I had expected more, placed on a pedestal and worshiped as an icon of the city that seems to live by and for Che. But there is the other side of the city, which is much more intimate and elaborate than that presiding over the grand mausoleum and museum that welcomes us into Santa Clara.

You need to walk roughly 15 minutes and leave behind the Monument to the armored train that takes us to the front of the Provincial Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba. Here, the statue, which seems to fill your entire view, shows Che with a small Cuban child (symbolising the next generation) on his shoulders.