To tourists, Old Havana may be the city's heart and soul, but to Cubans, it's El Malecón. Technically speaking, El Malecón is a 5-mile-long boulevard that stretches along the water, with Havana Bay on ...
To get an inside glimpse of daily life for the average Cuban, you and your kids should skip the hotels and stay in one of the hundreds of casas particulares sprinkled throughout Havana, the Cuban ...
Old Havana’s streets are narrower than a broad alleyway and almost as old as Columbus. The ancient heart of the Caribbean’s largest city, Old Havana’s (or Habana Vieja’s) original street plan was ...
HAVANA — Eusebio Leal Spengler, who oversaw the transformation of crumbling Old Havana to an immaculately restored colonial tourist attraction, becoming the de-facto mayor of the historic city center ...
His decades-long effort to preserve a capital’s colonial buildings turned a former slum into a tourist destination and capitalist success story. By Steven Kurutz Eusebio Leal Spengler, who led an ...
HAVANAHAVANA — Eusebio Leal Spengler, who oversaw the transformation of crumbling Old Havana to an immaculately restored colonial tourist attraction, becoming the de-facto mayor of the historic city ...