You are herelahabana.com › Havana Guide › Activities › Hemingway › Places in Plaza de la Catedral & around › La Bodeguita del Medio

La Bodeguita del Medio

General sightseeing

CA Ranking: 4

Open: 10:30am-midnight daily

Admission: Free

Empedrado #207, e/ San Ignacio y Cuba, Habana Vieja

Also included in Hemingway section

Back 1942, this well-known restaurant was a small grocery store. Its owner, Ángel Martínez, began to sell food as the number of customers increased. One day, journalist Leandro Garcia, a regular costumer, decided to put his name on one of the walls and soon many other distinguished personalities followed suit, including Pablo Neruda, Agustín Lara, Brigitte Bardot, Ignacio ‘Bola de Nieve’ Villa, Ernest Hemingway and Salvador Allende. This is a must for most visitors.

Opening hours: Bar: 10:30am-midnight daily; Restaurant: noon-midnight daily

La Conversación Statue LH 4

The beautiful contemporary bronze sculpture titled ‘La Conversación’ looks out over Plaza San Francisco de Asís from atop a marble plinth in front of the entrance to the Lonja del Comercio. Made by Fr …

Admission: n-aPlaza de San Franciso, Habana Vieja

Hostal Conde de Villanueva LH 4

The former 18th-century mansion of Claudio Martínez de Pinillos, Count of Villanueva, leader of Cuban Creole society in the 19th century, was restored in the 1990s to create a charming and comfortable …

ColonialAdmission: n-aMercaderes #202, e/ Lamparilla y Amargura, Habana Vieja

Museo del Ferrocarril LH 4

Opened on November 19, 2002, the Railway Museum is housed in the former Cristina railway station, headquarters of the Western Railway of Havana. Cuba was the sixth country in the world to develop a ra …

Open: 9:30am-5pm Tues-SunEstación Cristina, s/n, esq. a Arroyo, Habana Vieja

Club Habana LH 4

Originally called Havana Biltmore Yacht & Country Club, the establishment gained notoriety when it denied entry to Cuban president Fulgencio Batista on the grounds that he was ‘black’ (in fact, Ba …

Admission: n-aOpen: 7:30am-9pm daily5ta entre 188 y 192

Sacra Iglesia Catedral Ortodoxa de San Nicolás LH 4

This tiny and architecturally authentic Greek orthodox church (Cuba’s only one) stands in the Jardín Madre Teresa de Calucuta and was consecrated by Bartholomew I Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop o …

ColonialAdmission: n-aChurruca esq. a San Pedro, Habana Vieja

Convento e Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Belén LH 4

Made up of a church, a convent and a peculiar vaulted arch, this religious complex is the most extensive of those surviving in Old Havana. After the arrival in Havana of the first members of the Order …

BaroqueAdmission: FreeOpen: 8am-6pm Mon-FriCompostela e/ Luz y Acosta, Habana Vieja

Universidad de La Habana LH 4

With Brother Tomás Linares del Castillo as its first rector, the first university in Cuba, the Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de La Habana, was created in 1728. After several reforms, t …

EclecticL entre San Rafael y 27 de Noviembre

Casa del Conde de Casa Lombillo LH 4

A beautiful façade with a huge arched portal, a loggia supported by thick columns on pedestals, and beautiful mediopunto stained-glass windows above define this two-story 18th-century building on Plaz …

ColonialAdmission: n-aSan Ignacio # 364, Habana Vieja

Iglesia del Espíritu Santo LH 4

Although considered by many the oldest church in Havana, a research by historian Pedro A. Herrera has proved otherwise. The original building, which was built as a hermitage in 1638 for freed slaves a …

Admission: FreeOpen: 8am-noon & 5-8pmCuba esq. a Acosta, Habana Vieja

Avenida de los Presidentes (Calle G) LH 4

This avenue takes its name, Avenida de los Presidentes (Avenue of the Presidents), from the monuments that have been placed on its wide promenade to honor some of Cuba’s former presidents as well as o …

From Avenida Salvador Allende (Carlos III) to the Malecón

« 5 of 22 pages »

You are herelahabana.com › Havana Guide › Activities › Hemingway › Places in Plaza de la Catedral & around › La Bodeguita del Medio