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Hotel Saratoga, Old Havana, Havana, Cuba
After a prolonged gestation period, an old star has been reborn on a leafy square opposite the Capitolio, Havanas version of the dome in Washington DC. The original Hotel Saratoga, carved out of an...
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El Malecon, Havana, Cuba
This oceanside pedestrian walkway stretches all the way from the Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta in Habana Vieja to the Almendares River that separates Vedado from Miramar (about 7km/4 1/4 miles...
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Callejon de Hamel, Centro Habana, Havana, Cuba
Nearly every inch of this narrow 2-block-long alleyway is painted in bright colors, the work of painter Salvador González. Most are mural-size depictions of Afro-Cuban deities. There are also...
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Hotel Florida, Old Havana, Havana, Cuba
This building of colonial appearance and elegance, built in 1836, was the former residence of renowned families and opulent businessmen. Florida Hotel, fit to the American and European comfort, opened...
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Hotel Valencia, Old Havana, Havana, Cuba
The old house of Alderman Sotolongo, today the Valencia hotel, was originally built to be a house at the end of the 18th century. The hotel is located just a few meters away from the Arm's and St....
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Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Vedado, Havana, Cuba
Distinguished and stylish, the Nacional is as remarkable for its history as for the superb location that it enjoys. The eight-storey Spanish-style property rises on a hill-top overlooking the Malecon,...
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La Guarida Restaurant, Centro Habana, Havana, Cuba
This is Cuba's most famous paladar (as Cuba's home restaurants are called). It’s a small place that gained a spot of fame when it was featured in the 1994 film "Strawberry and Chocolate."...
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El Floridita, Old Havana, Havana, Cuba
This is by far the classiest of the many Hemingway hangouts in Habana. In fact, El Floridita is so upscale, I have a hard time imagining the rugged writer really enjoying this place. It'll cost you...
Havana Travel Guide, Cuba
The city that Alejo Carpentier called the one of the columns
Old Havana is a must visit district. It nostalgically remains to Cadiz and Tenerife. It is the city that Alejo Carpentier called “the one of the columns”. In it there are all the ancient monuments, fortresses, convents and churches, palaces, narrow streets, human density… Old Havana is the richest colonial compound in Latinoamerica. The Cuban state does huge efforts in order to preserve and restore the Old Havana, through the office of the City’s Historian, run by...
Old Havana Travel Guide, Cuba
One of Latin America’s most electric and culturally unique city
Old Havana, which for centuries was inside the walled part of the city, was founded in late 1519 at the port Carenas. Its primary nucleus consists of buildings that were erected around a series of public squares and tiny areas adjoining monasteries and old churches.A constant victim of attacks by pirates, corsairs and enemies of the Spanish Crown, the village of San Cristóbal de La Habana had to be fortified with a powerful defense system, some of whose major fortresses, such as the...
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