Rent Houses and Apartments in Havana, Cuba – Places of interest in Havana.

The Cuban capital is, without doubts, the tourist destination par excellence of the bigger than the Antilles. And inside this their historical center "declared by the Humanity's UNESCO Patrimony in 1982" it is a point of having forced reference for as much as visitor arrives to this city, during considered centuries the key of the Gulf of Mexico.

To the distant November of 1519 the foundation goes back, in its definitive location next to the channel of entrance of a well protected bay, of the village of San Cristóbal from Havana, converted with the time on the dot of encounter of the Spanish fleets that transferred to the metropolises the extracted wealth of its domains in the call New World, and fundamental axis in the trade and the communications between this and the Old Continent.

Similar advantages, derived essentially of their strategic geographical position, also impacted in a direct way on the ulterior development of the prosperous village that began to grow to the help of a nonpareil defensive system in the Hispanic America and surrounded by a wall whose construction (begun in the second half of the XVII century and concluded later more than 100 years) it was considered from their ineffective and expensive beginning.

The Tempers, a small neoclassical building inaugurated in 1828, is the place where November 16 the Havanan ones celebrate the celebration of the first mass and the first town council of San Cristóbal from Havana, and the point starting from which you begin the tourist journeys in general for the original nucleus of the Cuban capital.

To scarce steps of there they are the Square of Weapons, around which you rise the imposing Castle of the Real Force (1577) where today it is exhibited the most important artistic ceramic collection in the Island and envelope whose tower is erected The Weather-cock, an artistic vane symbol of the city and the Palacios of the General Captains (Museum of the City) and of the Second End.

Other three squares and their adjacent constructions invariably wake up the interest of their visitors: the Square of the Cathedral, surrounded by opulent mansions; the recently restored Old Square, where the house of the Counts of San Juan of Jaruco stands out; and the Square of San Franciso of Assis, fences to the church and the equal convent names, in one of whose cloisters are the Museum of Sacred Art.

But to walk for the streets of the Old Havana, many of these even paved, it also represents the possibility to come closer to more than a dozen of museums and famous Cuban plastic artists' study-galleries and Latin Americans; to visit Benito Juárez houses, of Asia, Africa, Puerto Rico, of the Arab (there he is the only room for the existent Muslim prayers in Cuba) and of Simón Bolívar.

It is also interesting to visit the scale model of this municipality; to traffic for Paula's Boulevard, a beautiful walk built in the second half of the XVIII century; or to cross the bay to arrive to the ultramarine towns of Casablanca, where the Christ from Havana is erected, and it Rules, where he is the Sanctuary of Our Mrs. of the Virgin of Rule, marines' protector and fishermen and employer of the Bay of Havana.

The park historical-military Muzzle-Cabin conforms it two havens of the magnitude of the Castle of the Three Reyes of the Muzzle (1630) and the strength of San Carlos of the Cabin (1774), classified in its moment like the work summit of the fortified defensive system. In fact from this last fortification every night it is shot, at nine o'clock on the dot, a salvo gunshot that in attractive ceremony it remembers the times when the flashes (in hours of the dawn and to the evening) they constituted the conventional sign to open up or to close the walls of the city and to place or to move away the enormous wooden floating chain and brass that he/she gave access to the port of the village.

To discover the call outside Havana, however, it is as exciting as to retrace the narrow streets of the old city. Havana was growing under the influence of the constructive more average dissimilar of the orb and in its lands they found space the renacentismo, the Mudejar one, the Baroque and the Cuban Baroque, the neoclassicism, the eclecticism, the art nouveau, the art decó and the pragmatism.

This way, to the other side of the useless wall places like the Walk of the Grassland, the Great Theater of Havana and the Capitol appeared, one of the most splendid buildings in the capital and in whose interior is the Statue of the Republic, the third more high of the world indoors and to whose feet were the diamond that marked the kilometer zero of the Central Highway.

They were also born the famous Havanan pier, of about 12 kilometers of longitude and considered the most characteristic image in the city that connects to the traditional center with the populous quarter of The Preserve from whose heart, The Ramp area of magnificent urbanization and architecture can be consented easily to other places of tourist interest as the bicentennial University of Havana, the Square of the Revolution and the Brief José Martí (the highest mirador in the city, with 138,5 meters high on the level of the sea), or Columbus's Necropolis considered among the most important in the planet by its multiple artistic values.

Toward both sides of the center of the city they exist points of remarkable interest also. In address west, the Fifth Avenue leads to the residential quarter of Miramar that acts as orbit of the managerial world and of business and where it is possible to visit an impressive Scale model of the City. The Palacio of Conventions, the enclosure ferial Pabexpo and the exclusive Club Havana precedes to the tourist community Marina Hemingway, an appropriate place to dive, to practice the fishing of height, to participate in a safari to the coralline barriers, or to navigate on board in a comfortable conditioned yacht for the life.

Toward the east of the city and after crossing the Tunnel of the Bay, you arrives to the town of fishermen of Cojímar of peculiar beauty and coloring that invites to remember the lingering stay in Cuba of the Prize Nobel of Literature Ernest Hemingway who found many of the scenarios and characters of their works precisely there.

More than 15 kilometers of coastal fringe, fine sands and blue waters and reveal they extend between Bacuranao and Guanabo conforming a nautical circuit that the Havanan ones identify simply as the Beaches of the East, and in which you usually highlight for their natural attributes to Santa María del Mar.

Also heading for the east of the capital, to only 15 kilometers of the center, a small town been founded in 1733 starting from the existence of miner-medicinal waters invites to know its historical, architectural, cultural and natural values: Sacred María of the Rosario.

As all great city, Havana is the heart of the intense political, scientific and cultural life of the nation. Dozens of museums, theater rooms and of concerts, art galleries and cultural institutions have their seat in the city and some as the National Ballet of Cuba, the House of the America, the Foundation of the New Latin American Cinema, or the National Folkloric Group enjoy enormous international prestige.

And of course, it is also a city where the good one to eat and the amusement has an important space in places so well-known as The Cellar of the Means, the Florida, or the cabaret Tropicana, or in other fewer mentioned, but that they already have a reserved space in the preference of the thousands of tourists that every year travels the Cuban capital.

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