Varadero and Matanzas (province and city of)

The houses in Varadero and Matanzas (27)

Vacation Rentals in Varadero and Matanzas

This page contains houses in Varadero and some in Matanza (meaning the entire province of Matanzas and not only the city of Matanzas).

At this time, the sale of houses and real estates in Varadero is still forbidden. But maybe, with the time the situation will maybe unblock. You will find here the complete list of vacation homes rental in the area of Varadero.

General Description of Varadero

Perhaps the poet was lying when he wrote “E blanc, A vert, O bleu, voyelles”? Or maybe he knew that the three vowels of Varadero evoke the white of its sands, the blue of its sky and the green of its vegetation? The only thing we know for sure is that he ended up selling guns in Africa and probably he was evoking without knowing it (or knowing it?) the key concept of universal beach, because when we talk about Cuban beaches, we are talking about Varadero par excellence, in the same fashon as we can mention a poet without naming him Rimbaud.

Varadero is the ultimate tourist destination of Cuba and it's so strategically important that, despite the fact that it should be part of the Cárdenas municipality, a city with lot of history in the Matanzas province south to Varadero, it's a special municipality in its whole, whose access was restricted and only recently the house sale and rental was permitted.

The blue beach of Cuba is located at about two hours from Havana, it has an international airport and it is, without a doubt, the tourist capital of Cuba, even more than Old Havana, with his 20 kilometers of uninterrupted beach. These 20 km are full of hotels, tourist structures, shopping centers, restaurants and amusements. Everything under the green, the blue and the white, the three primary colors of its nice landscape. Varadero also dispose of 23 golf sites, it's the cradle of kitesurfing and the only place of Cuba where you can find an official school of this sport, lots of diving sites, a national aquarium, a natural park and an amusement park. Varadero also has ten virgin islands, several marine flora and 40 types of corals, so it's an amazing place for diving enthusiasts.

What the name of Varadero mean? Where it come from?

There are two versions about the name of Varadero. According to some people, it is called so because during the "norths" (front cold which cause constant winds from north during the Cuban winter), the boat stranded in the sandbanks, which were called varabanes, plural of "varabán", where the Varadero name come from, which literally mean "huddle of varabanes". According to the second version, sailors used these sandbanks to beach a boat that needed to be repaired or maintained. Thus, in this case "Varadero" would mean place to beach the boats.

Both versions refer to sandbanks, the famous "varabanes", which are very typical in Varadero.

Additional characteristics

Since its discovery to now, Varadero never stopped to be popular. At the beginning it was the preferred place by the Cuban billionaires and there is an anecdote about the Xanadú manor, a very luxury villa which was built by the American billionaire of French origin Dupont de Neumours. This manor and its ground comprise all the area where the Varadero Golf Club, the Plaza las Américas the Meliá las Américas hotel and the manor itself are now located. Since the Cuban Revolution, the manor was confiscated and opened to the public. Today it consists in the Las Américas restaurant, a bar and a little hotel. It's about the most dramatic and famous confiscation in the post-revolutionary Cuba. It's said that Dupont died the day where the Las Américas restaurant was inaugurated.

Varadero is divided in two areas, an urban zone and an hotel zone, much like it happen in Cancun, but in a minor measure because in the Varadero case the zone are more strictly related and there is not a clean separation between the two. The urban zone begin with an iron bridge, which is the official entry of Varadero and consists in 65 streets united by one avenue of 5 kilometers, the Primera avenue. In these 65 streets is where almost all the commercial, recreational and night life of Varadero is concentrated. Next, it come the Kawama district, which is the famous hotel zone, where most of the all inclusive hotels are located. In this area, reserved to the tourism, no Cuban was allowed to enter before the year 2008.

Finally, at the extreme east of Varadero, which is called "la punta" (the tip), there are eleven square kilometers of virgin zone, where almost no hotel is constructed, since this area was declared as an ecological reserve. This is the only area where you can enjoy of an uncontaminated and wild nature.

Varadero has a lot of attractions, but the major one is the beach. Since the Dupont Manor to the more oriental tip, there are 11 kilometers of beach accessible to anyone. Other places of interests are located in this area such as Plaza de las Américas, a place containing several restaurants, a big supermarket, several handicraft, souvenirs and clothes shops, an international drug store, a SPA, a bank, a telecom office and a car rental agency, among other places. But you can find this kind of places also in the urban zone, and we definitively recommend to visit the whole peninsula, without counting the south coast, where the sea is not as transparent than the north one, but is without a doubt as beautiful.

Our site was probably one of the first managing the home vacation rental in Varadero and it will be surely the first managing their sale.