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The old house of Alderman Sotolongo, today the Valencia hotel, was originally built to be a house at the end of the 18th century. The hotel is located just a few meters away from the Arm’s and St. Francis of Assisi’s Squares. It has a very cosy bar called Nostalgia, which is a bohemian place [...]
Close to the Prado Promenade, the Park View hotel was built in 1928. It reopened, with the turning of 21st century, completly modernized and with a wonderful comfort. Its rooms have all the conditions for a pleasant rest after a long day in Havana. The looby-bar serves international drinks and the refreshing Cuban cocktails. The [...]
The Hotel Los Frailes used to be the mansion of the Marquis and Captain of the French Navy, Don Pedro Claudio Duquesne. Once visited by the most select nobility of the time, ecclesiastical dignitaries, military authorities and renowned artists, the house has become today the perfect place to enjoy the silence and the meditation throughout [...]
An elegant big house from the 18th Century, located very closely to the Plaza Vieja, one of Old Havana’s most beautiful squares, opens as a cozy hotel, where the combination of modern and old architectural elements stresses the originality of its attractive design. This noble house, built by Gabriel Beltrán de Santa Cruz’s parents, the [...]
Very close to both Cathedral Square and Armas Square, the old mansion of Marquises of Prado Ameno appears again, showing its splendour as in the old times. Properly located, just few meters from Obispo Street, the main artery of the historical centre, the large house with its colonial style, recreates the typical Cuban aristocratic house [...]
The eclectic Ambos Mundos Hotel was built in the late 1920′s and it is an intimate and cozy place that stands out because of its history. In the early 1930′s, the American writer, Ernest Hemingway, stayed in this hotel and, in the room 511, he wrote the first chapter of For whom the bell tolls [...]
Discovering colonial Havana is an additional pleasure for the guests of the Hotel Inglaterra, the oldest hotel in Cuba, which soon will celebrate its 130th anniversary. Inaugurated in 1875, the Inglaterra is currently one of the oldest and most classic hotels in the city. The building has been declared a National Monument due to its [...]
This building of colonial appearance and elegance, built in 1836, was the former residence of renowned families and opulent businessmen. Florida Hotel, fit to the American and European comfort, opened in 1885 and became one of most famous hotels in the capital city. With the splendor of the past, Florida hotel is reborn in the [...]
This property, which dates back to the 19th century, belonged to Don Pedro Regalado Pedroso y Zayas, Commander of the Order of Isabel La Catolica. El Comendador, excepcional for the intimacy and the silence that its inner spaces provide the guests with, is the perfect lodge for seclusion and meditation. The house resembles the oldest [...]
Right on one corner of the Port Avenue, the Armadores de Santander (Shipowners of Santander) hotel erects magnificently. Its architectural motifs and its decoration evoke the beautiful and maritime Spanish region of Santander, where the owner and builder of the hotel, José Cabrero Mier, was from. The main shipowners from that city, such as De la [...]
