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Joined EzineArticles on Nov 24, 2007 El Patio Restaurant in Havana, For the Best Gourmet
Food and Drink: Restaurant Reviews • Published: July 11, 2008
José Lezama Lima (1910-1976), a very polemic Cuban author, who wrote the novel Paradiso chose El Patio restaurant in La Habana Vieja as cuisine headquarter, a site of many aromas and a daydreaming environment. For the writer, who compared once the lamb to the reading and placing them in their corresponding place, without discrediting one before another, it was a pleasant place worth to be visited in order to try some of its excellent dishes served in a unique decoration environment. A site declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1982 has been opened for ...
Hemingway and the Good Fishing in Cuba
Travel and Leisure: Outdoors • Published: July 9, 2008
There is no natural phenomenon in the world so closed related to an important figure of the literature like the Gulf Stream, located between the United States and Cuba, incapable of being parted of the Nobel Prize for Literature Ernest Hemingway. Since the author of "For whom the Bells toll" landed at Havana in 1928 for the first time on the steamship "Orita", the see and its ocean current impressed the young reporter and touched his feelings.
Cuba's National Hotel - An Elegant Monument in Havana
Travel and Leisure: Hotels Accommodations • Published: July 9, 2008
There is much known about the Cuba's National Hotel in Vedado, although the Executive Floor is remarkable, acknowledged by many businesspersons from all over the world who prefer it for overnight. Certified as Cuba's National Monument, it has a marvelous view of a vast part of the capital and its sixth floor counts on many privileges for a very demanding tourism.
Conde De Villanueva Hotel in Havana, Cigar and Intimacy
Travel and Leisure: Hotels Accommodations • Published: June 5, 2008
The Conde de Villa Nueva Hotel turned very soon into the most cherished lodging in Cuba, above all for the cigar smokers. Inaugurated on February 24, 1999, during the Habano Festival, it very quickly caught the attention of many Europeans and North American that travel to Havana as businesspersons and, mainly, for buying those handmade famous cigars: the Habanos Premium. The manager Humberto Broche Reyes and the vice manager Lilian Puig Cabrera, actually, a young married couple, are very glad with the results and the appeal of this amusement house with only nine rooms.
The "Pollo Cabana", and the Restaurant-Bar Cabana - Good Taste, Plenty of Color
Travel and Leisure: Destination Tips • Published: June 4, 2008
As a special characteristic, since some years ago the French tourists visiting Cuba are especially fond of the "Pollo Cabaña", a specialty only found in the restaurant with the same name (Restaurant-Bar Cabañas), across from the Havana's Malecón (8 km long seawall). This preference is a fact that shows the increasing presence of French travelers who chose the Cuba, this warm Caribbean destination as a quiet site of a vast amount of beauty as to nature, society, history and culture.
The Cristo De La Habana - Lookout Point And Cuban Symbol
Travel and Leisure: Destination Tips • Published: May 15, 2008
The Cristo de la Habana (sculpture of Jesus Christ in Havana) has a privileged location for photographing the capital city. Up from its hill, all the urban side of Havana can be seen, and this giant sculpture per se is culture.
H. Upmann Cigar Factory in Cuba
Reference and Education • Published: May 12, 2008
Ancient smokes seem to be renewed for a trademark and factory plenty of history: H. Upmann, the oldest of the capital of Cuba and most recognized trademarks. Since November 2003, it began its operations in a four-floor building (one of them that is huge was taken for the galera room) located on the corner of 23rd and 14 streets in the neighborhood of El Vedado in Havana.
La Bodeguita Del Medio, Undoubtedly The Most Famous Cuban Restaurant
Food and Drink: Restaurant Reviews • Published: May 12, 2008
No trip to Cuba is complete without visiting the most world-famous restaurant on the island: La Bodeguita del Medio. And it has earned such a deserved reputation "for the Cuban feast" it represents to the palate; a venue where you can get familiar with the local cuisine very quickly.
Granma - Cuban Ever-Green Province
Travel and Leisure: Destination Tips • Published: May 12, 2008
Among the most attractive trips in Cuba it is worth to highlight the one aimed at discovering its eastern region, which is Cuba's most beautiful, intricate place. It constitutes a real Cuban feast to the most demanding tourist.
Colonial Fortresses of Havana
Travel and Leisure: Destination Tips • Published: May 12, 2008
With more than 400 years of settlement (November 16, 1519), Havana shows at present, brighter than ever, its colonial fortresses to the eyes of thousands travelers from all over the world. We are talking about very historic, well-preserved places and hence; one of the most attractive destinations for tourist purposes in Havana. These fortresses were built for defending the capital against pirates' attacks.
The Punta Fortress - A Castle in the Very Entrance of the Bay of Havana
Travel and Leisure • Published: February 6, 2008
In the well-known place where the foundation of the village of San Cristóbal of Havana took place, La Punta Fortress stands out in the entrance of the bay; this small fortress has been named as the sister of the imposing stony mass of the celebrated Castle of the Three Kings of the Morro. With more than four centuries, the Castle of San Salvador of La Punta has subsisted until today, despite of its four hundred years.
Playa Larga - An Interesting Beach Location in Cuba
Travel and Leisure: Outdoors • Published: January 22, 2008
Playa Larga (Long beach) is without place to doubts a paradisiacal place. The beach is not so visited as Varadero, but this spa shows its secrets of an almost virgin beach. Apart from this, this beach keeps in itself a lot of history, since was for its sands for where the troops of the United States disembarked in 1961.
Holidays to Cuba - Best Time to Travel
Travel and Leisure: Hotels Accommodations • Published: November 28, 2007
Best time to travel to Cuba. Recommendations on the cheapest seasons in Cuba.