This enchanting island, that was discovered 1494 of Christoph Kolumbus during his second America-trip, set in the Canarreos-Archipel, between Cuba and Mexico. It served over centuries as base for English and French pirates, who were after the Spanish Galeonens, that load richly, with gold and silver from South America to Europe did in Havanna stopovers and visited on this occasion at the treasure Island. Also Sir Francis Drake served it as pirate-basis in the 18th century. Few years only ago was found some chests filled with gold coins; also numerous shipwrecks were discovered from times of the Spanish conquerors in the south of the island. The property circumstances of the Island changed in the course of the history several times; also, the Island names are to be not counted at a hand. Named from Columbus " Evangelista ", it turned during the Pirate times into the Devil - and Pirate Island, late Pine Island. Officially now " Isla de la Juventud " (" Island of the Youth "), it is called today to Divers and Tourists "The Treasure Island", after the famous novel of Robert Louis Stevenson, that he wrote here.
Isla de la Juventud
