Journey through urban Cuba
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Discovery.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne, Hiver.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - La Havane ?
The map of your stay "Journey through urban Cuba"
Detail of the stay : Journey through urban Cuba
How to get there - La Havane
Havana - Habana Vieja
Steps: La Havane
A fascinating city, the Cuban capital has none of these overrated legends. While poverty and dilapidation have not disappeared since the crisis of the 1990s, the policy of restoring Habana Vieja, undertaken since 1982 with UNESCO funding, has enabled the historic heart of the capital to be renovated and revitalized. As Latin America's most significant colonial architectural ensemble and a World Heritage Site, it is now being revitalized without sacrificing to the drive to develop. We'll start our visit with a model of its kind, the center of Havana, which has regained its lustre and established itself as the great success of the Castro regime's architectural policy. Its many squares(plaza de Armas, plaza de la Catedral, plaza Vieja), magnificent pastel palaces and beautiful churches continue to structure space and the imagination. A detour to the museums, the Prado and the Malecón (waterfront promenade) will confirm your initial impression.
Places of interest : PLAZA DE ARMAS PLAZA DE LA CATEDRAL PLAZA VIEJA
Havana - from Centro Habana to Miramar
Steps: La Havane
Extend your tour of the capital with a visit to Centro Habana, Vedado and the chic Miramar neighborhoods. Once night falls, check out your nightlife skills and rub shoulders with the island's reputation for music and festivities..
Cienfuegos
Steps: Cienfuegos
Head east to Cienfuegos. Built in the 19th century by the French, the city boasts an immense bay - the deepest in the country - a pretty peninsula (Punta Gorda) and a charming, clean and airy downtown. Its well-preserved neoclassical architecture makes it a national monument. Cubans, rarely short of nicknames and compliments, call it the "Pearl of the South".
Trinidad
Steps: Valle De Los Ingenios
The best-preserved colonial city on the island and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Trinidad has established itself as one of the country's major tourist attractions. A must for lovers of the past! A simple stroll around the old cobbled historic center, centred around the Plaza Mayor, is enough to understand the enthusiasm for the superb colonial palaces, most of which have been converted into museums. Don't forget that you'll be able to sleep in authentic old colonial homes. Take the opportunity to learn more about the history of the sugar industry with a stroll through the superb Los Ingenios valley, also a World Heritage Site.
Places of interest : PLAZA MAYOR
Camagüey
Steps: Camagüey
Camagüey , the country's third-largest city, is no mere stopover. Its historic center, one of the oldest on the island, boasts superb colonial buildings and churches, which were restored just before the city's 500th anniversary celebrations in February 2014. Culture is king here, and the places where it expresses itself are atypical. The urban layout, far from respecting the orthogonal plans applied in the rest of the country, is more tangled than elsewhere. It was designed to defend the city from pirate attacks.
Holguín
Steps: Guardalavaca
Nicknamed the " Ciudad de los parques " (city of parks), Holguín is strikingly prosperous. Orderly, clean and airy, you'll be glad to stop here for a day on your way up the north coast to the beaches of Guardalavaca and the pretty port of Gibara. During the last two weeks of October, the city also hosts the Fiesta de la Cultura Iberoamericana, an event focusing on the Hispanic cultural roots of the Cuban nation.
