The small Parque de la Caridad, three blocks north of Plaza Serafín Sánchez [1], is graced by a simple church, the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad. On the southeast corner, the Fundación de la Naturaleza y el Hombre (Calle Cruz Pérez #1, tel. 041/32-8342, funatss [at] enet [dot] cu, Mon.–Fri. 10 a.m.–4 p.m., CUC0.50) is a museum that honors the 17,524-kilometer journey by a team of Cubans that paddled from the source of the Amazon to the Bahamas in dugout canoes in 1996. The eclectic miscellany displayed ranges from the dugout canoe to models of hominids in various stages of evolution and a copy of Hernán Cortés’s medieval suit of armor.
The Museo Casa Natal Serafín Sánchez (Céspedes Norte #112, e/ Frank País y Tirso Marín, tel. 041/32-7791, Tues.–Sat. 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., Sun. 8 a.m.–noon, CUC0.50), one block south of the plaza, is where the patriot-hero was born.
He is honored, too, at the Monumento Serafín Sánchez, a bronze bas-relief wall on the west side of the Plaza de la Revolución on Bartolomé Masó and Frank País, five blocks east of the museum.
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[1] http://www.moon.com/destinations/cuba/sancti-spiritus-province/sancti-spiritus/sights/plaza-serafin-sanchez