Antonio Maceo International Airport — Santiago, Cuba

Antonio Maceo International Airport honors the Afro-Cuban general nicknamed the Bronze Titan, one of the most celebrated commanders of Cuba's nineteenth-century independence wars against Spain, and it serves Santiago de Cuba, the island's second-largest city and a place deeply woven into Cuban revolutionary history. SCU sits near a city where Fidel Castro's rebels launched their famous 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, an event now commemorated annually and central to the founding narrative of the later revolution that took power in 1959. Perched in the mountainous eastern end of the island near the Sierra Maestra range, the airport connects Santiago de Cuba to Havana and to a limited number of international destinations, largely serving Cuban travelers, diaspora visitors, and tourists drawn to the city's Caribbean-flavored colonial architecture, Afro-Cuban musical traditions, and role as one of the earliest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas.