When the word   “Varadero “is mentioned in any place, the name is right away associated with a very beautiful place and tourism, but events of the famous resort’s ancient history is unknown.

Varadero’s history is recent. Towards the end of the Nineteenth Century, a small town was raised in Cardenas, a municipality very close to this beach, and here people began to talk about Varadero’s salt mines.  But finally, and through the years, this territory proved to have other enchantments. Very soon, a resort was built and it was known as the Blue Beach. This is how the resort grew fast until it turned out to be famous worldwide. 

The place where we may know the unique events of its ancient history is the museum. You may see for example the remains of one of the aborigines found at the cavity of the “Muslim Cave”. The bones shown belong to a funeral site estimated between the 500 years before Christ and 500 first years from our present era.

Some researches state that the skeleton belonged to a man between 25 and 35 years old, sick from anaemia and syphilis.
Remains of the Mealunus-rodes were also found at the cavity of the Muslim Cave, a pre-historical animal considered as the predecessor of the jutía and which served as food for the aborigines. It is supposed that the referred animal had very slow movements therefore; it was easy to hunt it.
Seventy two pictographies are found here, some from aborigines with negroid characteristics. Five halls are also in the cave and the most outstanding one is the one of the skylights, with an orifice in its upper part, where more drawings are kept.

Varadero’s   archaeological sites, are not only the Ambrosio’s and the Muslim’s caves, they are not the only important sites for the famous resort, they are also important for Matanzas and Cuba as well. But the Blue Beach besides has a more recent and interesting history.

Its shores witnessed two landings during the independence war periods, one in 1884 and the other in 1886.  The most outstanding took place during this  last year and was led by general Enrique Collazo, who carried a great amount of weapons meant for the independent men struggling for Cuba’s liberation.  
Estimations tell that patriots arrived to the coast close to the streets 42 and 47, where there was a clash with the soldiers staying in the Spanish fortress, some investigations tell the Spanish soldiers apprehended one mambi, who was taken as a war trophy to the close locality of Cardenas.