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Museo de los Bomberos

Museum / Cultural center

CA Ranking: 3

Open: 10am-5pm Tue-Sat

Admission: free

Zulueta 257 entre Neptuno y Animas

This singular 1910 Fire Station has a simple but refined façade that features a kind of triumphal arch dominated by a central double-heighted void. Today, it houses a lovely museum about the history of firefighters in Cuba.

Parque y Casa Alejandro de Humboldt LH 3

In this 19th-century house, the scientist Alejandro de Humboldt installed his instruments and botany and mineral collections while ensconced here 1800-1801. Restored as a museum in 1997, the five exhi …

Admission: FreeOpen: 9:30am-5:30pm Tues-SunOficios #254, esq. a Muralla, Habana Vieja

Hotel Ambos Mundos LH 3

This 1920s eclectic hotel is best known for being described by Hemingway as “a good place to write.” He stayed here during the 1930s and this is where he wrote his chronicles on fishing and the first …

EclecticAdmission: FreeObispo #153, esq. a Mercaderes, Habana Vieja

Casa de Los Pelícanos LH 3

Although modified by later reconstructions, this Art Nouveau apartment building has preserved its beautiful wooden door carved with floral motifs and flanked on both sides by two slender stone pelican …

Admission: n-aMercaderes e/ Teniente Rey y Amargura, Habana Vieja

Sinagoga Adath Israel de Cuba LH 3

Built in 1959, this is the oldest and only orthodox synagogue in Cuba. The building has a room for praying that can seat 600 people, a mikve and a hall. Opening hours: Shajarith: 8am (daily except on …

Admission: FreeOpen: 8am dailyPicota #52 esq. a Acosta, Habana Vieja

Fachada del Teatro Fausto LH 3

Built in 1915, it was reconstructed and remodeled in 1938 according to a project which was awarded the Gold Medal by the National Architects’ Association. Its pure Art Deco façade is faced with a mixt …

Art DecoAdmission: NonePaseo de Martí (Prado) esquina a Colón

Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras LH 3

The Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital opened on December 3, 1982. In the late 1950s the dictator Batista planned the construction of a new building for the National Bank of Cuba on the grounds where the Ho …

Modern

Casa de Dionisio Velasco LH 3

Built in 1912, the building was conceived as a grand palace. Lavishly ornamented on its facade, it features overhanging balconies and windows which break the horizontal line of the balustrade. This mo …

EclecticAdmission: FreeCárcel #51 esq. a Zulueta, Habana Vieja

Casa del Científico (Casa de José Miguel Gómez) LH 2

The compact yet extravagant Beaux Arts building on the northwest corner of Prado and Trocadero was once the residence of Cuba’s second president, José Miguel Gómez, known as ‘El Tiburón’ (The Shark). …

EclecticAdmission: FreePrado #212 esq. a Trocadero, Habana Vieja

Museo Farmacia Taquechel LH 2

This townhouse was adapted in 1898 into a pharmacy by Francisco Taquechel. Restored and reopened in 1996, it functions as pharmacy and museum. Its collection includes 19th-century French porcelain apo …

Admission: FreeOpen: 9am-4.30pm dailyObispo #155, e/ Mercaderes y San Ignacio, Habana Vieja

Edificio del Seguro Médico LH 2

This is one of the most significant exponents of the trends in architecture in Havana of its time. According to architect Pedro Martínez Inclán, “Quintana can boast about having given Havana…two build …

Modern23 esquina a N

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