Santa María is the most popular beach among both Habaneros and visitors. It has lodgings, restaurants, watersports hire, grocery stores and a pharmacy. As with the other beahes, it boasts soft, white sand.
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Templo Nacional Masónico LH
Art DecoCarlos III (Avenida Salvador Allende) #506-508 esquina a Belascoaín (Padre Valera)
Casa del Benemérito de las Américas Benito Juárez LH
Maqueta de la Habana Vieja LH
Palacio de la Artesanía (Casa de Don Mateo Pedroso) LH
ColonialAdmission: n-aOpen: 10am-7pm dailyCuba #64, e/ Cuarteles y Peña Pobre, Habana Vieja
Fábrica de Tabacos de Calixto López LH
Neo-classicalZulueta e/ Gloria y Misión, Habana Vieja
Iglesia del Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje LH
ColonialAdmission: FreeOpen: 9am-6pm, Tues-SunVillegas e/ Lamparilla y Teniente Rey, Habana Vieja
Museo de los Bomberos LH
Faro O’Donnell LH
El Templete LH
Neo-classicalAdmission: CUC 1Open: 9am-6:30pm dailyBaratillo, esq. a O’Reilly, Habana Vieja
Museo del Tabaco LH
Templo Nacional Masónico LH 3
This building of imposing image is an example of conventionalism at a time when the architectural avant-garde had already paved the way for new, bolder ideas. From that premise, however, this construc …
Art DecoCarlos III (Avenida Salvador Allende) #506-508 esquina a Belascoaín (Padre Valera)
Casa del Benemérito de las Américas Benito Juárez LH 3
Housed in the former 18th-century mansion of the Pedroso y Herrera family, this museum is named for Mexican president Benito Juárez, who visited Havana in 1853 and 1862. It has four rooms dedicated to …
Admission: FreeOpen: 9am-5pm Tues-SunObrapía #116, esq. a Mercaderes, Habana Vieja
Maqueta de la Habana Vieja LH 3
This captivating and incredibly detailed scale model (1:500) of the old city is a must-see while exploring Habana Vieja, of which it provides a great overall perspective. Measuring 8 meteres long by 6 …
Admission: CUC 1Open: 9am-6pm dailyMercaderes #116, e/ Obispo y Obrapía, Habana Vieja
Palacio de la Artesanía (Casa de Don Mateo Pedroso) LH 3
Strategically located on Cuba Street between Cuarteles and Peña Pobre, it looks out onto the bay. Noteworthy in this 18-century mansion is the 32 meter-long continuous balcony on its façade, one of th …
ColonialAdmission: n-aOpen: 10am-7pm dailyCuba #64, e/ Cuarteles y Peña Pobre, Habana Vieja
Fábrica de Tabacos de Calixto López LH 3
Built in 1886, the Calixto López y Compañía tobacco factory and warehouse takes up the whole block between Zulueta, Economía, Gloria and Misión streets. It has the typical ground floor, mezzanine and …
Neo-classicalZulueta e/ Gloria y Misión, Habana Vieja
Iglesia del Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje LH 3
Erected in 1640 simultaneously with the Plaza del Cristo around the Ermita del Humilladero–the final station of the Vía Crucis or procession of the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, which started …
ColonialAdmission: FreeOpen: 9am-6pm, Tues-SunVillegas e/ Lamparilla y Teniente Rey, Habana Vieja
Museo de los Bomberos LH 3
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 o …
Admission: freeOpen: 10am-5pm Tue-SatZulueta 257 entre Neptuno y Animas
Faro O’Donnell LH 3
The original lighthouse at the Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro was erected on the Morrillo Semibastion and was fueled by wood until the 17th century, then by gas until the 19th century and finall …
Admission: CUC 2Open: 9am-8pm dailyCastillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro
El Templete LH 3
Built in 1827, El Templete commemorates the first mass and town council held in the city, at the foot of a ceiba tree that grew on the northeast corner of what would soon evolve as the Plaza de Armas. …
Neo-classicalAdmission: CUC 1Open: 9am-6:30pm dailyBaratillo, esq. a O’Reilly, Habana Vieja
Museo del Tabaco LH 3
Housed in an 18th-century mansion that once belonged to merchant Don Bartolomé Luque, this modest museum displays lithographic prints, old pipes and lighters, early cigar boxes and ashtrays, furniture …
Admission: FreeOpen: 9am-5pm Tues-SunMercaderes #120, e/ Obispo y Obrapía, Habana Vieja
