"Inner Havana, After Cecilia Valdés´s Stairsways" Tour

"Inner Havana, After Cecilia Valdés´s Stairway" Tour

Attractive walks through the streets and historical sites of Havana

INNER HAVANA is one of the most attractive projects proposed by the city of Havana. It offers the opportunity to know the architecture and the Havana city´s urban layout (Town wonder of the world), from the different styles and the most variety foreign influence that took place on in the colonial times and neo-colonial. INNER HAVANA invites us to the awareness of the backgrounds of Historians and the last evolution of the buildings, streets, drives, squares, and parks. At the same time, it permits us to discover the presence of important personalities in this environment and, the most important, we can appreciate how this ancestral huge work fits with the actual Cuban reality.

Description:

INNER HAVANA proposes After the Cecilia Valdés´s stairway, allowing the approach to the colonial Havana in the first half of the 20th century, recreated in Cecilia Valdés by Cirilo Villaverde, a classic novel of the national literature that has been inspiration and has endowed heading to other great works of the Cuban art: The Gonzalo Roig´s operetta and the Humberto Solás´s feature film.

After the Cecilia Valdés´s stairway

Included:

• A local tour guide (Spanish, English).
• Visits to all described sites in the program.

Places of interest to visit:

• 1. Dock of Luz
• 2. San Francisco of Paula Church (actually place of Conjunto de Música Antigua Ars Longa)
• 3. La Merced Church
• 4. Espíritu Santo Church
• 5. Convent of Santa Clara
• 6. Old Square
• 7. San Francisco Square
• 8. San Agustín Church
• 9. Bolívar Park
• 10. San Gerónimo College
• 11. Capitanes Generales Palace
• 12. The Arms Square
• 13. Templete
• 14. Real Force Castle
• 15. Havana Cathedral
• 16. San Juan de Dios Square – Cervantes
• 17. Santa Catalina de Sena Church
• 18. Saint Angel kept´ Church

Distance to cover in the tour: 4 km approximately.

Duration approximate of the tour(total): 2 hours approximately.

Meeting point:

Days available:

TOUR GUIDE: Josep Trujillo Fonseca vice president of the Cultural Society José Martí and also teacher since 1973. He has several publications in national centers of a press and the booklet "La ciudad jardín" and "Tras los pasos de José Martí y Cecilia Valdés". He has counseled assorted television show, and arranged diverse audiovisual exhibitions and materials about José Martí.