The white sand beaches an overall length of more than 18 km constitute the principal tourist attraction of Varadero , which receives each year of the hundreds of thousands of tourists. If the development of tourist industry with the passing of years radically changed the urban landscape of Varadero, it still has nevertheless some old houses out of wooden and some typical streets.

Located on the peninsula of Hicacos, in the province of Matanzas, Varadero is long and thin strip of land which advances in the sea. Its beaches are superb, and the Cubans claim, rightly, that they prove to be most beautiful of the country. Calm and transparent water has an infinity of colours, energy of the turquoise green to dark blue. Ideal for the bathe and the water sports, the sea is always hot, the average ambient temperature of Varadero being of 25oC.