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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El Caballero de París LH
Galería Victor Manuel LH
Casa de Las Tejas Verdes LH
OtherAdmission: n-a2 # 308, entre 3ra y 5ta
Iglesia del Espíritu Santo LH
Teatro Auditorium Amadeo Roldán LH
Convento e Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús e Ignacio de Loyola LH
EclecticOpen: 8am-noon, 3-6pm daily; Mass: 8am, 4.30pm Mon-Sat; 8am, 9.30am, 4.30pm SunReina (Avenida Simón Bolivar) entre Belascoaín (Padre Valera) y Gervasio
Hostal Conde de Villanueva LH
ColonialAdmission: n-aMercaderes #202, e/ Lamparilla y Amargura, Habana Vieja
Museo del Ferrocarril LH
Sacra Iglesia Catedral Ortodoxa de San Nicolás LH
ColonialAdmission: n-aChurruca esq. a San Pedro, Habana Vieja
Convento e Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Belén LH
BaroqueAdmission: FreeOpen: 8am-6pm Mon-FriCompostela e/ Luz y Acosta, Habana Vieja
El Caballero de París LH 4
Dozens of passers-by on Oficios are drawn every day to the life-size bronze statue of this humbly dressed man that stands outside the entrance to the basilica. Approach it and you will see that his lo …
Basílica Menor y Convento de San Francisco de Asís, Habana Vieja
Galería Victor Manuel LH 4
This gallery offers a nice selection of mainstream decorative modern paintings, some of which could be considered true works of art. Given its location and popularity, high pric es are to be expected. …
Admission: FreeOpen: 9am-9pm dailySan Ignacio #56, esq. a Callejón del Chorro, Habana Vieja
Casa de Las Tejas Verdes LH 4
The Casa de Las Tejas Verdes (literally, House of the Green Tiles) was designed by architect José Luis Echarte and built in 1926. It is unique in Cuba for being the only example of the German renaissa …
OtherAdmission: n-a2 # 308, entre 3ra y 5ta
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
Teatro Auditorium Amadeo Roldán LH 4
Opened on December 2, 1928, the Teatro Auditorium was created under the auspices of the Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical and thanks to the efforts of its director, María Teresa García Montes de Giberga (1880 …
Open: National Symphony Orchestra: 9pm Fri; 5pm Sat; 4pm Sun. Other programs: 6pm-8pm weeknights (check in advance)Calzada y D
Convento e Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús e Ignacio de Loyola LH 4
Known by many as Iglesia de Reina, Cuba’s tallest and perhaps most beautiful church rises in the midst of the urban landscape as one of the most accomplished religious constructions in Cuba in terms o …
EclecticOpen: 8am-noon, 3-6pm daily; Mass: 8am, 4.30pm Mon-Sat; 8am, 9.30am, 4.30pm SunReina (Avenida Simón Bolivar) entre Belascoaín (Padre Valera) y Gervasio
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
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 