Manzanillo is principally a working port. Sailing into the harbor the town looked like a colorful stretch of the Italian coastline.  Getting off the ship and strolling the Malecon it became apparent that this city was in significant decline – many of those colorful houses we saw from the sea were dilapidated with windows boarded and some floors uninhabitable. On the positive side the Malecon was lined with modern sculptures depicting the signs of the zodiac. The highlight of the port was a dominating sculpture of a sailfish – the town claims it is the sail fishing capital of the world.