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Fraternity Park

By blgs_admin on Saturday, May 20th, 2017 | Comments Off

This area of the city, so busy today, for centuries was a site rarely frequented by the people of Havana. It is said that they were swampy and mangrove lands, and then area of estancias with abundant woodland. Towards 1790 it becomes a field of military exercises that is extended in 1793 from a project […]

Old Havana Tour

By blgs_admin on Friday, February 10th, 2017 | Comments Off

For more than 200 years, Havana has been the most important and attractive city in the Caribbean basin and the Gulf of Mexico. It is a city full of charms for its architecture, its sea and its people, main reasons why today it bears the title of being the 7th Wonder City of the World. […]

The Cathedral of San Cristobal de La Habana

By blgs_admin on Friday, February 10th, 2017 | Comments Off

Its construction began in 1748, by order of the bishop Felipe Jose de Res Palacios; And is currently considered one of the most beautiful and sober religious buildings of the American Baroque. A good example of a Jesuit style. It is dedicated to the Virgin, whose image is represented on the high altar. The cathedral […]

Old Havana and its picturesque characters

By blgs_admin on Friday, February 10th, 2017 | Comments Off

Old Havana is like a postcard where the picturesque characters abound and tell us their little stories, sometimes with just a glance. At the corner of Hotel Ambos Mundos we stumbled upon the smart guy, who wears a suit, hat and two-tone shoes, and with that other one who is disguised as a policeman from […]

Trading Market San Francisco de Asís square

By blgs_admin on Friday, February 10th, 2017 | Comments Off

Trading Market is located in front of the San Francisco de Asís square, occupying a small block intercepted by the streets Lamparilla, Baratillo, Oficios and Obrapía. It is a beautiful building inaugurated in the year 1909 from a call in which it was winner the project of the Spanish architect Tomas Mur. An installation constructed […]

National Capitol of Havana

By blgs_admin on Friday, February 10th, 2017 | Comments Off

Remarkable symbol of the city of Havana and one of the great buildings of Cuba. Of great architectural wealth, sumptuously ornate, of pure lines and beautiful proportions. Throughout the construction of the building materials of excellent quality were used, such as: Italian marbles, details in walls, ceilings, doors and lamps, most of them were melted […]

Basilica Minor of the Convent of St. Francis of Assisi

By blgs_admin on Friday, February 10th, 2017 | Comments Off

The Minor Basilica of the Convent of San Francisco de Asís, is located in the square that bears his name, in a building from 1738 located in Oficios between Amargura and Churruca, in Old Havana. Converted The Minor Basilica in a concert hall of great popularity for its magnificent acoustics with presentations of choral and […]

Horse-drawn carriage ride through Havana

By blgs_admin on Friday, February 10th, 2017 | Comments Off

During colonial times in Cuba there was what was called the Quitrín, a carriage of horses of indigenous origin, which became the main means of transport to travel the country. It had to be taken into account that the roads had not yet been created, but the paths were practically impassable roads. On board these […]