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, 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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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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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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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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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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Palatial in magnitude and elegance, the Santa Isabel enjoys what is perhaps the most privileged location of all hotels in the area: facing the charming Plaza de Armas (a cobbled square flanked by...

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An elegant big house from the 18th Century, located very closely to the Plaza Vieja, one of Old Havana’s most beautiful squares, opens as a cozy hotel, where the combination of modern and old...

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An authentic colonial guesthouse can be found after crossing the magnificent large doors of the Hotel del Tejadillo. The house is decorated with paintings that show the reigning eclecticism in Havana,...
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