Cuba Tourist Directory
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Architecture: Lonja del Comercio Building Comerce Guild
0 ReviewsOpen since 1909, the project was designed by the Valencian architect and sculptor Tomás Mur, winner of the contest that, to this end, had been announced since 1903. The American company Purdy &…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: San Fransisco Square, Old Havana, Havana City. Cuba
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Architecture: Asturian Center Building
0 ReviewsThe Asturian Center opened up in this new see in 1927. Eclectic in style, the building has four storeys and as many towers. Some of its most appealing features are the life-size sculptures, the main stairway,…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Havana City. Cuba
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Architecture: Cuban National Bank Building
0 ReviewsIn 1901 the North American Trust Company began to operate as National Bank. In 1907 it moved into this new building on the corner of Obispo and Cuba streets. On its classical façade a Corinthian…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Obispo Street. Old Havana
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Architecture: Central Railroad Station Building
2 ReviewsAfter the old Army Arsenal was torn down, on the site where it had stood, the Railroad Station was built in 1912. This one substituted the old Villanueva train station, located on the lot occupied today…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Havana City. Cuba
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Architecture: Marques de Aguas Claras House
0 ReviewsEl Patio, the residence of the Marquis de Aguas Claras is placed in the Cathedral Square, in the heart of the Old Havana. This nice restaurant is placed in one of the most beautiful mansions of the 18th…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: 54 San Ignacio Street. Catedral Square, Old Havana.
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Architecture: National Capitol Building
13 ReviewsIn 1929 the lot, where the first railroad station in Havana had been built was occupied by the National Capitol, seat of the House of Representatives and of the Senate of the Republic. The initial project,…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Prado y Neptuno, Havana City. Cuba
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Architecture: Palacio Cueto
0 ReviewsIt was built in 1906 on designs by the architect Arturo Márquez. It was a warehouse and a hat factory. Afterwards its ground floor hosted an exquisite drugstore famous for its cedar furnishings.…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Old Square, Old Havana
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Architecture: San Francisco de Paula Church
1 ReviewsOn the same spot where the Ermita del Calvario was first located, the Women´s Hospital of Saint Francis of Paula was built about 1667, as the last will of the priest Nicolás Estévez…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Paula y Cuba, Old Havana
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Architecture: Captain Generals Palacio
1 ReviewsOne of the most important architectural monuments in Old Havana, of a neat Baroque style, is the ancient Captains Generals Palace’s, venue to the Spaniard Colonial Government in Cuba for over 100…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Tacon Street between Obispo and O`Relly, Havana City. Cuba
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Architecture: Gran Teatro de La Habana
10 ReviewsCentro Gallego de La Habana (Galician Center of Havana). One of the architectural jewelry of Havana is placed in front of Parque Central, next to Capitolio Nacional and it is the Gran Teatro de La Habana.…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Prado e/ San Rafael y Consulado, Havana City. Cuba
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Architecture: Bacardi Building
11 ReviewsAt the end of 19th Century, the Bacardi rum was very famous in Cuba and abroad. Its creator, Don Emilio Bacardi, was a Spaniard settled in the island. It is said that he had a bat as a talisman which…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Old Havana. Cuba
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Architecture: Brunet House
1 ReviewsPlaced in the palace of the Casa Brunet Count, a wealthy Creole who finished building his house in front of the Plaza Mayor in 1808. It was the first museum founded in Trinidad. Inaugurated in 1973. In…
- Destination: Trinidad
- Address From: Trinidad. Cuba
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Architecture: Palacio Cantero
0 ReviewsBuilt between 1827 and 1830, 50 meters from the Plaza Mayor. It has a magnificent ladder and great neoclassical paintings performed by local and Italian artists. Since 1980, the building is the seat of…
- Destination: Trinidad
- Address From: Trinidad. Cuba
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Architecture: Jagua Fortres
10 ReviewsOne of the tourist attractions in the city of Cienfuegos, its reconstruction was finished in 1745 and it was opened with the name of Castle of our Lady of the Angels of Jagua (Castillo de Nuestra Señora…
- Destination: Cienfuegos Ciudad
- Address From: Cienfuegos Bay
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Architecture: Diego Velazquez Museum
10 ReviewsIt is the mansion that belonged to Diego Velazquez (Spanish conqueror, first Governor from Cuba and founder of the first seven villages in the country), built between 1516 and 1530, even maintained in…
- Destination: Santiago de Cuba
- Address From: Santo Tomas No. 612 e/ Aguilera y Heredia, Santiago de Cuba
- Telephone: 5322) 652652
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Architecture: City Hall of Santiago de Cuba
1 ReviewsThe current building of the City Hall of Santiago de Cuba was inaugurated in 1950 under the direction of the teacher Francisco Prat Puig who adapted some old plans of the XVIII century destined to the…
- Destination: Santiago de Cuba
- Address From: Santiago de Cuba
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Architecture: Antonio Hoces Carrillo House
0 ReviewsThis primitive two-story house corresponds to all the characteristics of a stately house of the 17th Century, although some elements have been added in past times. A small courtyard is the centre of the…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Obispo 117-119 e/ Oficios y Mercaderes, Old Havana.
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Architecture: The Franchi Alfaro House
0 ReviewsThe perimeter of Plaza Vieja, originally known as Nueva, was totally constituted in the 18th Century by a collection of houses of great homogeneity and excellence. All them were two-story houses, the…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Mercaderes, 315-317, Esq. Muralla, , Havana City. Cuba
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Architecture: Francisco A de Basabe House
0 ReviewsTo create this mansion two houses were unified. Like in other constructions at that time, it features a continuous balcony in the façade and the layout around a main courtyard. The pillars of the…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Mercaderes 213, Esq. Amargura, Old Havana. Cuba
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Architecture: The House of Arabians
0 ReviewsThe huge old house hosting this museum, placed in the very heart of the ancient part of Havana, is the materialization of the Moorish spirit that influenced with strength the Cuban architecture since…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Oficios 114 e/ Obispo y Obrapia, Old Havana
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Architecture: House of Casa Lombillo Count
0 ReviewsDoña María Luisa Peñalver y Navarrete lived in this house until her dying day in 1792. She was the daughter of the General Treasurer of the Army and of the Royal Exchequer of Havana,…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: San Ignacio 364, e/ Teniente Rey y Muralla, , Havana City. Cuba
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Architecture: House of the San Juan de Jaruco Count
0 ReviewsThis family, originally from Castilla La Nueva, went to Canary Islands and took part in its conquest. One of its members was also conqueror of Santa Marta, governor of Cartagena de Indias and founded…
- Destination: Havana City
- Address From: Muralla, 107-111, Esq. San Ignacio, Plaza Vieja, Old Havana
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