Moncado Barracks – site of Reina Mercedes barracks

Date: March 9-15, 2005

Description: Moncado Barracks, the site of Reina Mercedes barracks during the Spanish-Cuban-American War. The barracks were used by Spanish troops. The rebuilt barracks is famous as the site where Fidel Castro and the 1950s revolutionaries began their revolution with a bloody but failed attack on the barracks