Pro
Beautiful architecture, lots of vintage cars, no major chain stores or restaurants
Con
People suffer many shortages, damaged buildings
In a nutshell
Get there before the revolution in the sun runs out of steam
42 Reviews During our visit to Havana, one of my favorite things to do was to just walk through the streets of Habana Vieja, admiring the contrasts of both people and structure. It's an opportunity to see freshly painted colonial-era historical buildings right next to run down apartment complexes, a sense of...
12 Reviews Opposed to other beaches in Cuba where one can only find tourists, Playas del Este is very popular among the habaneros, who can frequently enjoy these warm waters thanks to their closeness to the city. The next beach between Bacuranao and El Mégano is a tourist resort called Tarará, 20 kilometers...
39 Reviews Identical to the one in Washington,DC USA in smaller scale was built in 1929 to house the parlement of the Republic of Cuba . See the hall of pas perdus. A diamond last belonging to the Tzar of Russia now used to mark kilometer zero to all distances in the island. It is now the headquarters of the...
36 Reviews This monument, located at Plaza de la Revolucion, was built between 1953 and 1959. It is a 109 meters five-star-shaped tower. Grey marble was the material used for the tower. The memorial monument is at the floor ground of the tower. It has a 18 meters Jose Marti statue. There is an elevator to the...
34 Reviews This oceanside pedestrian walkway stretches all the way from the Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta in La Habana Vieja to the Almendares River that separates Vedado from Miramar. No trip to Havana is complete without at least some time spent strolling and lingering along the Malecón, which is the...
15 Reviews There are two major cigar factories in Havana, the Partagas one (sounds like a retailer of methane to me) being the oldest. As I'm a non-smoker, I can't say I had much interest in the process, but the smell was wonderfully aromatic and you get some great photo opportunities with the workers smoking...
17 Reviews The Morro Castle, or "El Morro" as it is most commonly known, is the first fort you'll come to after crossing under the harbor channel tunnel. Sitting on the point overlooking Havana's narrow harbor channel, it was built between 1589 and 1630 and served as an important line of defense against pirate...
Museo de la Revolution - Revolution Museum
21 Reviews Museum worth to see... Entrance fee is 6cuc. If you have a bag, you have to leave to the box. Explaniton for last photo: In pictures something written: Thanks to Batista for help to making revolution. Thanks to Reagan for enlarging to revolution. Thanks to Bush for consalidate to revolution. (Or...
Plaza de la Catedral - Cathedral Square
13 Reviews This square is located in front of the harbour, really close to plaza vieja.This is one of the more animated location of the Habana vieja, there are the S.Francesco church and the buildings of Lonja and the terminal of Sierra maestra. Actually the church is used as a concert hall, but unlukily we...
21 Reviews sculpture facade with great symmetry of styles, the facade is baroque, the interior has differents styles over the centuries. the sculptures and porcelains inside of done by Italians masters like Bianchini and Giuseppe Perovani. the left side you can see the funeral monument to Christopher...
19 Reviews the Real Fuerza Castle is the oldest fortress in the island. Its construction began in December 1st, 1558 The basement of the castle is a square divided in nine identical parts that join other four regular bastions. It is surrounded by a grave limited by a perimeter wall. A sculpture made of...
Necropolis Cristobal Colon - Havana's Cemetery
7 Reviews World famous cemetery that contains the biggest concentration of statues and funerary monuments in Cuba. The Legend of "La Milagrosa" (see picture below): Doña Amelia passed away during childbirth in 1903 at the age of 23 years old. Her child died as well. She was buried with her dead child...
6 Reviews We came upon an artisan market in Old Havana. I wish I could tell you where we were; unfortunately it was May, it was 38C, crowded, and all I could think about was how I was sweating from body parts I didn't even know I had..... we were down the street from Central Park. The market was shaded, which...
13 Reviews The salon or room "García Lorca", previously named Gran Teatro Tacón had its first presentations in Nov 1837,to officially open in April 1838. open since then, it is one of the most important in the Americas and famous such as Anna Pavlova , Alicia Alonso, Sarah Bernhart ,Eleonora Dusse, Adelina...
21 Reviews family run, from chef to servers, using charcoal for cooking ,nice setting using the entire old home, you come to taste the local food, come here, very friendly and cheap. All is good. no web or tel i was there with my family , I am Cuban born, good food and cheap and great Cuban ambiance, cant beat...
16 Reviews There's a bar at the front that holds around a dozen people from which it is packed. The restaurant through the back is bigger. Unless though you are a real Hemmingway zealot, this is an unremarkable place. The other Hemmingway place is the Floridita a few mins walk away and while nothing mega to...
6 Reviews The Capital of Cuba and a UNESCO World Heritage Site Havana or LA HABANA is also the major port and leading commercial center of Cuba. With 2.3 million inhabitants, Havana is the largest city in both Cuba and the Caribbean region. Havana is located 106 miles ( 170 km ) southwest of Key West Florida,...
7 Reviews About half of the old American vehicles on Cuba’s streets are from the 1950s, with Chevrolets more numerous than any other make. Another 25 percent are from the 1940s, with the remainder from the 1930s. Except for a handful of newer automobiles belonging to diplomats, no American cars have been...
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