Havana Cuba General Information
Here are some tips that will help you while you are visiting Cuba.
These are just a few of the many things to see and do.


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Old Havana is the richest colonial set of Latin America. The narrow streets of the old Havana contain many buildings of historical and cultural significance, accounting for perhaps as many as one-third of the approximately 3,000 buildings found in Old Havana. is the ancient city formed from the port, the official center and the Plaza de Armas. It remembers nostalgically to Cadiz and Tenerife. It is the city that Alejo Carpentier called "de las columnas"(of the columns), but that also can be named of the gateways, the revoco, the deterioration and the rescue, the intimacy, the shade, the cool, the courtyards... In her there are all the big ancient monuments, the forts, the convents and churches, the palaces, the alleys, the arcade, the human density. The Cuban State realizes enormous efforts to preserve and to restore the Old Havana, by means of the Office of the Historian of the City, directed by Mister Eusebio Leal. Old Havana and its fortifications, inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1982.

The Malecón runs for about five kilometers, from the entrance of the Bay of Havana - in the east - to the west, with a parallels the irregular coastline, which is bathed by the warm waters surrounding the island. Walk down this long road along the sea and take in the views. Or you can have a swim with the Cubans or try one of the peanuts that they sell.