Isabela de Sagua, also shortened as Isabela and nicknamed La Venecia de Cuba ("The Cuban Venice"),[1] is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Sagua la Grande, in Villa Clara Province. In 2011 it had a population of 3,187.
The village was founded in 1843 as the port and customs of Sagua and, 5 years later, it was enabled for international import trade.[citation needed]Hurricane Kate (1985) severely damaged the village, which was never rebuilt. Instead a new town called Nueva Isabela was created 2 miles away from Sagua La Grande and many Isabela residents moved there.[1]
Among its most notable sons are Domingo Sánchez, Lázaro Sánchez, Juan Antonio Sánchez, and Lucio Benítez, all of whom spent years imprisoned for their opposition to the communist and totalitarian regime of Fidel and Raúl Castro Ruz. Have also produced baseball player of top quality such as Antonio Aleman and many others
The town has also produced painters, inventor & artists Reemby J. Parada Jr., amongst others, along with many others who have contributed significantly to its cultural and artistic development, making of Isabela de Sagua a leading cultural source for the area.
Isabela de Sagua has a port on the northwestern shore and a marina in the southwestern one. Its railway station is the northern terminus of the Santa Clara-Sagua-Isabela line and has some tracks serving the port. A provincial road links the village to Sagua la Grande and to the "Circuito Norte" (CN) highway.
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