Centro Habana
Centro Habana is one of the 15 municipalities in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Centro Habana is one of the 15 municipalities in the city of Havana, Cuba. A chinatown, Barrio Chino, is also located here. It is a smaller municipality of Havana, and it has the highest population density.
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Worth seeing in and around Centro Habana
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Old Havana
Old Havana is the city-center and one of the 15 municipalities forming Havana, Cuba. It has the second highest population density in the city and contains the core of the original city of Havana.
2.6 km · World Heritage site and municipality of Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 02Havana Cathedral
Havana Cathedral is one of eleven Catholic cathedrals on the island. It is located in the Plaza de la Catedral on Calle Empedrado, between San Ignacio y Mercaderes, Old Havana, Havana, Cuba.
3.3 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 03Museum of the Revolution
The Museum of the Revolution is located in the Old Havana section of Havana, Cuba, in what was the presidential palace of all Cuban presidents from Mario García Menocal to Fulgencio Batista. The building became the Museum of the Revolution during the years following the Cuban Revolution.
2.9 km · museum dedicated to history of the revolution on Cuba, located in Havana · Wikipedia - 04San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress
Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña, colloquially known as La Cabaña, is an 18th-century fortress complex, the third-largest in the Americas, located on the elevated eastern side of the harbor entrance in Havana, Cuba. The fort rises above the 60-meter hilltop, along with Morro Castle.
3.7 km · Spanish colonial fort in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 05National Library José Martí
The National Library José Martí is the national library of Cuba. It is located in Havana and named after the national hero José Martí.
1 km · Cuba National Library · Wikipedia - 06Colón Cemetery, Havana
El Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, also called La Necrópolis de Cristóbal Colón, was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba, to replace the Espada Cemetery in the Barrio de San Lázaro. Named for Christopher Columbus, the cemetery is noted for its many elaborately sculpted memorials.
1.9 km · cemetery in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 07Christ of Havana
The Christ of Havana is a large sculpture representing Jesus of Nazareth, on a hilltop overlooking the bay in Havana, Cuba. It is the work of the Cuban sculptor Jilma Madera, who won the commission for it in 1953.
4.1 km · sculpture · Wikipedia - 08National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana in Havana, Cuba, is a museum of fine arts that exhibits Cuban art collections from the colonial times up to contemporary generations.
2.9 km · art museum in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 09Palace of the Revolution
The Palace of the Revolution, is a palace in Havana, Cuba within the Plaza de la Revolución that serves as the house of the Cuban government and the First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.
1.5 km · building in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 10Estadio Pedro Marrero
Pedro Marrero Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Havana, Cuba. Built as a baseball stadium, it is now used primarily for football matches, and is the former home of CF Ciudad de La Habana.
4.2 km · Football stadium in Cuba · Wikipedia
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Getting to Centro Habana
- Airports
- José Martí (HAV), 16 km · Juan Gualberto Gomez (VRA), 98 km · Abel Santamaria (SNU), 260 km
- Stations
- Havana Central railway station, 2.9 km
- Matanzas → Centro Habana81 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · $8–11
- Santa Clara → Centro Habana259 km · quickest by road, 4h 32m · $22–30
- Santiago → Centro Habana6414 km · quickest by air, 15h 25m · CLP$516,990–801,370
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Centro Habana
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Centro Habana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTerminal 1 is for internal (domestic) flights, Terminal 2 is mainly for charter flights and some scheduled flights from the United States and Terminal 3 is used for all other international flights.
- Get inTaking the bus will take longer than a taxi colectivo.
- Get inFor passengers transferring to reach Terminal 3, By colectivo – A taxi colectivo route follows the same route as bus P-12 between Parque Fraternid (Simon Bolivar, just west of Fraternidad), and stops for Terminals 1 (stops on Avenida Rancho Boyeros at Avenida Van Troi) and Terminal 2 (stops on Avenida Rancho Boyeros at Carretera De Murgas).
- Get inTaxis colectivos are more frequent than the bus, will stop less than the bus and only has seated passengers, but are likely not suitable to accommodate space for more than one full-sized travel, hiking backpack or passenger.
- Get inRancho Boyeros, just walk to the nearest road (GPS: 23.0, -82.41058) and take some passing shared taxi or bus, for usually less than 100 CUP.
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Next door to Centro Habana
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- Plaza de la Revoluciónmunicipality in Havana, Cuba1 km
- Cerromunicipality of Havana, Cuba5.2 km
- Vedadourban neighborhood in the city of Havana, Cuba1.1 km
- Diez de Octubremunicipality of Havana in Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba5.6 km