Havana Tips & articles

Tips & articles

  1. Cuba’s architectural highlights: ‘music turned to stone’

    16 November 2009

    If Cuba’s soul is hidden in its music, then its architecture – in the words of novelist Alejo Carpentier...

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  2. Caffeine-fuelled travel: the world’s top coffee spots

    19 August 2009

    It inspires passion, opinion and addiction. It’s the world’s second most valuable commodity...

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  3. Revolutionary roll call: Cuba’s fighting heroes

    13 August 2009

    Cuba churns out revolutionaries like other countries produce movie stars and, with outside influence...

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  4. Festival fun, Cuban style

    13 August 2009

    Through war, austerity, rationing and hardship, the Cubans have always retained their infectious joie...

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  5. El ritmo cubano: Cuba’s musical soul

    10 August 2009

    Rich, vibrant, layered and soulful, Cuban music has long acted as a standard-bearer for the sounds and...

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  6. Havana - destination essentials

    10 June 2009

    Havana is a one-off. Vintage cadillacs, Santería rituals, all-night parties, strolls along the waterfront…it’s...

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