"Inner Havana, Colonial Fortresses – Cristo de La Habana" Tour

"Inner Havana, Colonial Fortresses – Cristo de La Habana" 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 allows 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 Colonial fortresses – Cristo de La Havana, 4th in the INNER HAVANA travel, it includes the 3 Kings of the Morro's Castle, built in 1589 by the Italian Soldierly engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, and La Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña, built in 1763, in the east zone of the bay enter, after the Havana English invasion. San Carlos de la Cabaña, the biggest military construction made by Spain in America, constitutes ones of the principal’s cultural stages of the island. On this place, it is celebrated the International Book Fair each year. El Cristo de La Habana (1958), work of the Cuban sculptress Jilma Madera, has an altitude of twenty meters and it's located in fifty rules on the degree of the ocean. Its position, at Casa Blanca Town, allows visitors to enjoy a panoramic view of the city, becoming in the ideal place for professionals and amateurs who want to photograph Havana.

Colonial Fortresses – Cristo de La Habana

Included:

• A local tour guide (Spanish, English).
• Visit all places described in the program.

Places of interest to visit:

• 1. Castillo de los tres Reyes del Morro
• 2. San Carlos de La Cabaña Forstresses
• 3. Anti-aéreas Arm Exposure
• 4. Cristo de La Habana

Distance to cover in the tour: 4 km approximately.

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

Meeting point: .

Days available: Daily.

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.