Lonely Planet Pocket Havana
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Lonely Planet Pocket Havana

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Publisher
Lonely Planet
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781787012196
Print ISBN
9781786576996

Habana Vieja

Havana's Old Town is one of the historical highlights of Latin America, an architectural masterpiece where fastidiously preserved squares and grandiose palaces sit alongside a living, breathing urban community still emerging from the economic chaos of the 1990s. The overall result is by turns grand and gritty, inspiring and frustrating, commendable and lamentable. No one should leave Cuba without seeing it.
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The Sights in a Day

MTo tackle history-filled Habana Vieja properly, sit down for breakfast with a map in La Vitrola on the corner of Plaza Vieja, and draw up a strategic plan of attack. The overriding motto: you won't have time to see everything. You can spend a good hour enjoying Plaza Vieja itself before moving onto Plaza de Armas with its book market and essential Museo de la Ciudad, which will tell you all you need to know about Havana's swashbuckling roots.
RTop up your sugar levels in the Museo del Chocolate before strolling down the colonial time capsule of Calle Mercaderes. Continue on to the Catedral de la Habana before hailing a cab to take you under the harbor to the Parque HistĆ³rico Militar Morro-CabaƱa. Stay until sunset peacefully perusing the gory details of conflicts past.
NReturn to the old quarter and go for a long, slow dinner in El Rum Rum de la Habana before hitting the bars and live music scene in Plaza del Cristo.

1 Top Sights

Parque HistĆ³rico Militar Morro-CabaƱa
Plaza Vieja
Catedral de la Habana

l Local Life

Rehabilitated Habana Vieja

x Best of Havana

Eating
Lamparilla 361 Tapas & Cervezas
El Rum Rum de la Habana
DoƱa Eutimia
Trattoria 5esquinas
Donde Lis
CafƩ del Ɓngel Fumero Jacqueline
La Vitrola
Restaurante el Templete

Getting There

g Bus The Habana Bus Tour T1 bus stops at various places in Habana Viej...

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Welcome to Havana
  3. Hurricane Irma and its aftermath in Cuba
  4. Top Sights
  5. Local Life
  6. Day Planner
  7. Need to Know
  8. Havana Neighbourhoods
  9. Habana Vieja
  10. Centro Habana
  11. Vedado
  12. Playa & Marianao
  13. Habana del Este
  14. Regla & Guanabacoa
  15. Museo Hemingway
  16. The Best of Havana
  17. Survival Guide
  18. Language
  19. Behind the Scenes
  20. Our Writers