Cuban Culture and Music – Salsa, Cigars and Dancing.Casablanca – El Cristo, The Morrow, Che Guevera, Cuban Missle Crisis.Downtown Havana – Capitol Building, Parque Central, Gran Teatro De La Habana, museums.Centro Havana – Great architecture, historic restaurants, Paseo Del Prado, photography tours.Vedado – Revolution Square, Hotel Nacional,.
Malecon – Waterfront, sunsets, views, and Grand Packard Hotel, Taxi Particular.Old Havana / La Habana Vieja – Classic car tours, Hemingway tours, nightlife and Havana Viejo.Read: 11 Fun Facts About Cuba You Never Knew
Originally named San Cristóbal de la Habana in 1519 Havana has enticed travelers to experience its old cars, vibrant nightlife and historic city center. It has topped many a travelers’ bucket list, and the Cuba’s capital city of Havana is one of the most exciting places to visit in the Caribbean. Visit The Capitol Building (el Capitolio)Ĭuba is an amazing country. Revolution Square / Plaza de la Revolución Sunset at Iberostar Grand Packard 6th Floor
Old Havana / La Habana Vieja Neighborhood. The task would have been a tall order anywhere, but carried out during the crippling austerity that plagued Cuba following the demise of the Soviet Union, it was nothing short of miraculous. By rehabilitating Havana’s colonial core, Leal not only safeguarded the best of the city’s architecture, he also helped resuscitate the Cuban economy and boost the capital’s flagging infrastructure with a raft of social projects. Havana’s evolution from neglected eyesore to Unesco World Heritage Site was groundbreaking in more ways than one. The genius of Leal was not just what he did, but how he did it. Yet, over the space of five decades, this modest academic transformed Old Havana from a crumbling slum into one of the finest restoration projects in the Americas. Outside the country, few have heard of him. While Guevara’s face has adorned a thousand T-shirts and the ghost of Castro still lurks on countless Havana billboards, Leal’s legacy is more subtle. Cuba’s greatest revolutionary might not be Fidel Castro or Che Guevara, but Havana’s city historian, Eusebio Leal Spengler, who died on 31 July 2020, aged 77.
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