Just as beautiful as the rest of the beaches in eastern Havana, Mi Cayito is best known for being Havana’s LGBT beach.
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Museo de los Bomberos LH
Faro O’Donnell LH
Casa del Benemérito de las Américas Benito Juárez LH
El Templete LH
Neo-classicalAdmission: CUC 1Open: 9am-6:30pm dailyBaratillo, esq. a O’Reilly, Habana Vieja
Museo del Tabaco LH
Fundación Alejo Carpentier (Casa de la Conde de la Reunión) LH
BaroqueAdmission: FreeOpen: 8:30am-4:30pm Mon-FriEmpedrado #215, e/ Cuba y San Ignacio, Habana Vieja
Zoológico de La Habana LH
Museo Palacio de Gobierno – Cámara de Representantes LH
Neo-classicalAdmission: FreeOpen: 9:30am-5:30pm Tues-SunOficios #211 e/ Churruca y Muralla, Habana Vieja
Edificio López Serrano LH
Art Deco13 esquina a L
Casa del Capitán Gaspar Rivero de Vasconcelos LH
ColonialAdmission: FreeObrapía #172, Habana Vieja
Museo de los Bomberos LH 3
This singular 1910 Fire Station has a simple but refined façade that features a kind of triumphal arch dominated by a central double-heighted void. Today, it houses a lovely museum about the history o …
Admission: freeOpen: 10am-5pm Tue-SatZulueta 257 entre Neptuno y Animas
Faro O’Donnell LH 3
The original lighthouse at the Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro was erected on the Morrillo Semibastion and was fueled by wood until the 17th century, then by gas until the 19th century and finall …
Admission: CUC 2Open: 9am-8pm dailyCastillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro
Casa del Benemérito de las Américas Benito Juárez LH 3
Housed in the former 18th-century mansion of the Pedroso y Herrera family, this museum is named for Mexican president Benito Juárez, who visited Havana in 1853 and 1862. It has four rooms dedicated to …
Admission: FreeOpen: 9am-5pm Tues-SunObrapía #116, esq. a Mercaderes, Habana Vieja
El Templete LH 3
Built in 1827, El Templete commemorates the first mass and town council held in the city, at the foot of a ceiba tree that grew on the northeast corner of what would soon evolve as the Plaza de Armas. …
Neo-classicalAdmission: CUC 1Open: 9am-6:30pm dailyBaratillo, esq. a O’Reilly, Habana Vieja
Museo del Tabaco LH 3
Housed in an 18th-century mansion that once belonged to merchant Don Bartolomé Luque, this modest museum displays lithographic prints, old pipes and lighters, early cigar boxes and ashtrays, furniture …
Admission: FreeOpen: 9am-5pm Tues-SunMercaderes #120, e/ Obispo y Obrapía, Habana Vieja
Fundación Alejo Carpentier (Casa de la Conde de la Reunión) LH 3
On Empedrado Street, between Cuba and San Ignacio, a few doors from the famous Bodeguita del Medio, stands this building which belonged to Don Santiago de la Cuesta, Conde de la Reunión. Its style is …
BaroqueAdmission: FreeOpen: 8:30am-4:30pm Mon-FriEmpedrado #215, e/ Cuba y San Ignacio, Habana Vieja
Zoológico de La Habana LH 3
Opened in 1939, this is Cuba’s oldest zoo. It is also known as Zoológico de 26 and is one of the most popular places for Cuban families to visit. And although there are many different species, monkeys …
Admission: freeOpen: 9:30am-5:30pm Tue-SunAve. 26 y Avenida Zoológico
Museo Palacio de Gobierno – Cámara de Representantes LH 3
Immediately south of the Convento de San Francisco de Asís, the squat yet imposing neo-classical building raised atop stairs served as the original Cámara de Representantes—the Republican House of Rep …
Neo-classicalAdmission: FreeOpen: 9:30am-5:30pm Tues-SunOficios #211 e/ Churruca y Muralla, Habana Vieja
Edificio López Serrano LH 3
It is considered the first Cuban skyscraper as it reproduces, on a modest scale, the model of tall New York buildings, conceived with layered fittings in order to let air and light in. The linear and …
Art Deco13 esquina a L
Casa del Capitán Gaspar Rivero de Vasconcelos LH 3
On the corner of Obrapía and San Ignacio Streets, one block west of Mercaderes, stands one of the oldest and best preserved homes in Havana, and despite its relatively simplicity, one of its most stri …
ColonialAdmission: FreeObrapía #172, Habana Vieja 