Viñales Over 200 km west of Havana and 27 km from the city of Pinar del Rio, the Viñales Valley is one of the prettiest areas in Cuba. Viñales is plain of several valleys separated by bizarre mountains called mogotes that dominate the landscape. Thanks to its rich soil, moist nights and cool mornings the…
The Belen Neighborhood In the area near Plaza Vieja, east of Avenida de Belgica (Egido) between the streets of Teniente Rey and Merced, you will find the neighborhood of Belen, which was the great religious center of colonial Havana, full of churches and convents. The 18th and 19th centuries witnessed a wave of ecclesiastical construction,…
Three places in Old Havana are very much linked to American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The Hotel Ambos Mundos, on the corner of Calle Obispo and Mercaderes, at Room 511, was Hemingway’s home on and off throughout the 1930’s, and it was where he shaped the plot of For Whom the Bell Tolls. His room has…