Not many American travelers to Cuba make it to Santiago de Cuba, on the southeastern coast. But the 500-year-old city has many attractions, including loads of music; the oldest extant colonial house on the island (c. 1540s), the Sierra Maestra range, out of which the Cuban revolutionary forces emerged; and the final resting place of El Jefe himself, Fidel Castro. His tomb at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago is a huge boulder shaped like a kernel of corn in homage to Jose Marti, the poet hero of Cuba whose domed monument stands nearby. June 19, 2017.