Santa María is the most popular beach among both Habaneros and visitors. It has lodgings, restaurants, watersports hire, grocery stores and a pharmacy. As with the other beahes, it boasts soft, white sand.
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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
Hotel Habana Riviera LH
Modern$37 - $52ROOMS: 352Avenida Paseo entre Malecón y 1ra
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 Arqueología (Casa de Juana Carvajal) LH
ColonialAdmission: CUC 1Open: 9am-4:30pm Tues-SunCuba #12 e/ O’Reilly y Empedrado, Habana Vieja
Convento e Iglesia del Carmen LH
EclecticOpen: Lauds: 8am; Vespers: 6:30pmInfanta entre Neptuno y Concordia
Coche Mambí LH
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
Hotel Habana Riviera LH 3
This hotel was opened in December, 1957, with a performance by Ginger Rogers at the Copa Room cabaret and was blessed by Cardinal Manuel Arteaga just a few days later. The construction is a fantastic …
Modern$37 - $52ROOMS: 352Avenida Paseo entre Malecón y 1ra
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
Museo de Arqueología (Casa de Juana Carvajal) LH 3
Housed in the Casa de Juana Carvajal, this museum is the result of archaeological studies in the Historic Center and the preservation efforts made by the City Historian’s Office. Inside is a fascinati …
ColonialAdmission: CUC 1Open: 9am-4:30pm Tues-SunCuba #12 e/ O’Reilly y Empedrado, Habana Vieja
Convento e Iglesia del Carmen LH 3
In 1923, members of the order of the Carmelites purchased a lot on the corner of Avenida del Presidente Menocal and Neptuno, where first they created a provisional chapel and later erected the majesti …
EclecticOpen: Lauds: 8am; Vespers: 6:30pmInfanta entre Neptuno y Concordia
Coche Mambí LH 3
Outside the Museo Palacio de Gobierno sits a railway carriage, still on rails at the corner of Callejón Churruca. It originally belonged to the Cuban Railroad Company and beginning in 1902 was used by …
Admission: FreeOpen: 9:30am-5:30pm Tues-SunOficios #211 e/ Churruca y Muralla, Habana Vieja
