As a key to a magical city, the Valley of the Sugar Mills in Trinidad, health or fire the visitor or native. And in that mental picture they do to be for an indefinite period, crowning a bold architectural framework even for its time: Manaca Iznaga tower, imposing and majestic.

Manaca Iznaga Tower, is the subject of disparate legends that have transpired in the imagination of Trinidad. Two brothers in a bid fierce love, Peter and Alexis Iznaga recognized sugar plantation owners, tried to break the limits of his time building.

The first decided to drill the land of the Sugar Mill Valley up to 28 feet deep while the latter erected a 7-story tower and 51 feet high.

The well was for the subsequent use of the inhabitants as the years passed, and the tower, by the magnificence of his sight, became a symbol representative of the City Museum of the Caribbean: Trinidad de Cuba.

Another story relates to the unfaithful behavior of Iznaga Alejo's wife and some people attributed to the family Iznaga Borrell, an uncontrollable habit of building.

But whatever the real reason for his appearance in the Trinitarian landscape around the former San Luis Valley, the tower has become a must visit site for all who like to discover the old stories, or to live the pleasant vertigo scale that produces a National Monument.

Because of its symbolic level and its association with one of the seven villages founded by Diego Velazquez in 1514, is included in the list of National Monuments in 1978.

However, despite all the imagery that surrounds the construction of the tower Manaca Iznaga in Trinidad, was used in monitoring objectively the sugar plantations, source of wealth for most families sugarocracy Trinity.

The construction period of the greatest vantage point available to Trinidad, is located in the eclectic period in Cuba. Hence, the tower is topped by a belfry and count on its structure with stone, brick and metal.

Turned-symbol of colonial architecture, the tower surprised by their construction: stone, brick and metal, topped by a belfry, which gave the signal to start and finish the job slave, besides prayer to the Virgin Mary.

More than 170 years of its construction, the tower of Manaca Iznaga in Trinidad, is seen as a symbol of mystery and tradition to this town that insists on rescuing their most ancient traditions.