Granjita Siboney is located on the road to the Siboney, 2 km past the La Gran Piedra turn-off (13,5 km far from Santiago de Cuba).

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Granjita Siboney is the farm that Fidel Castro and his young rebel group used as their camp before they attacked the Moncada barracks on July 26, 1953.

The construction of the farmhouse, named Villa Blanca, dates back to 1945. Its owner was a santiaguero merchant, José Vázquez Rojas. In April 1953 the farm was detected by Fidel Castro Ruz and Ernesto Adolfo Tizol Aguilera that looked for a house with conditions required to function as the headquarters of the young rebels that would seize the Moncada barracks. They rent the farm with the pretext to do business with chicken and made some revisions at the farm and decorated the area, as if they raised chicken. For example, they built three chicken coops allegedly to hide the cars that they would use in the transportation of the rebels and the weapons to Santiago de Cuba.

After the failure of the assault on Moncada garrison, several rebels, including Fidel Castro, escaped to the farm, and decided to continue with the fight against Batista regime on the closest mountain, on Sierra de la Gran Piedra. The soldiers of Batista discovered the farmhouse on the same day, on July 26. They brought 5 corpses from the Moncada barracks and placed them in the farm in different positions, as if they were killed here. The façade of the farmhouse was perforated by machine-gun, simulating a combat. The rebels that flied to the Sierra de la Gran Piedra received support from the peasants of the area; unfortunately, on August 1, 1953, Fidel Castro, along with seven companions, was captured by the soldiers of Batista.

The pretty little red-and-white house, pockmarked by bullet holes, now holds a museum that was inaugurated under the name Granjita Siboney in 1965. Due to its historical importance, it was declared National Monument in 1979.

The museum that presents the elements of Cuban colonial architecture, has seven exhibition rooms that allow us to know the details about the preparations before the assault, the course of the action and its consequences through photos, newspaper cuttings and panels. Personal objects of the rebels, car keys, caps, bullets, and rifles are exhibited in the museum. Some blood-stained uniforms that do not show bullet holes, thus demonstrating the crimes committed with the youth, are demonstrated in glass cabinets. You can see the cistern where the weapons were hidden, and the radio where they heard the events that they had generated, as well as the car of Abel Santamaría. The original furniture in white and red is in harmony with the colors that predominate the house.