Marianao
Marianao is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Marianao is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs in the city of Havana, Cuba. It lies 10 kilometres southwest of the original city of Havana, with which it is connected by the Marianao railway. In 2022 the municipality had a population of 134,057. Marianao is on a range of hills of about 1500 above sea level and is noted for its salubrious climate. The city dates back to 1830.
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Worth seeing in and around Marianao
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.
- 01Colón 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.
5.7 km · cemetery in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 02Estadio 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.
3.4 km · Football stadium in Cuba · Wikipedia - 03Tropicana
El Tropicana Night Club in Havana, Cuba located in a lush, 36,000-square-metre estate tropical garden opened on December 30, 1939 at the Villa Mina in Marianao. It is located next door to the old Colegio de Belén, Havana, presently, the Instituto Técnico Militar.
1.9 km · nightclub and show venue in Habana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 04Torreón de la Chorrera
The Torreón de la Chorrera, or to give it its full name, Fuerte de Santa Dorotea de la Luna de la Chorrera, was completed in May 1646. The tower stands on a coral islet only a few metres from the shore and not much larger than the tower itself.
6 km · fortified colonial tower, near downtown Havana · Wikipedia - 05Espada Cemetery
The Espada Cemetery was located in the Barrio of San Lazaro approximately a mile west of the city walls of Havana, Cuba, near the cove of Juan Guillen and close to the San Lázaro Leper Hospital. In use from 1806 to 1878, the Espada Cemetery was the first public burial place designed and constructed in Havana; prior to the cemetery, the Havana custom had been to bury the dead in the vaults of the churches such as Iglesia del Espíritu Santo in Habana Vieja.
5.7 km · cemetery in Havana · Wikipedia - 06Acuario Nacional de Cuba
The Acuario Nacional de Cuba is an aquarium in Havana, Cuba established in 1960 to focus on "research and environmental education". Displays include those of coral and other tropical species, as well as a dolphinarium and sea lion shows.
3.6 km · aquarium in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 07Finlay Institute
The Finlay Institute is a Cuban organization that carries out medical research and mainly produces vaccines. It is named after the Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay, who was the first to hypothesize the involvement of a mosquito as a vector of yellow fever.
2.7 km · epidemiological research institute · Wikipedia - 08Candler College and Colegio Buenavista
Candler College and Colegio Buenavista were educational institutions founded in Havana, Cuba by the United States Southern Methodist Episcopal Church. They were founded on two different dates, Candler College in 1899 and Colegio Buenavista in 1920.
3 km · Candler College and Colegio Buenavista were educational institutions founded in Havana, Cuba by the United States Southern Methodist Episcopal Church. · Wikipedia - 09Museo del Aire
The Museo del Aire was a national aviation museum located in the south-western suburbs of Havana, Cuba. In August 2010, the museum was closed, and the entire collection was moved to San Antonio de los Baños Air Base.
3.1 km · aviation museum in Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 10Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology is a research institute in Havana, Cuba.
2.2 km · research institute in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia
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Getting to Marianao
- Airports
- José Martí (HAV), 11 km · Juan Gualberto Gomez (VRA), 102 km · Abel Santamaria (SNU), 264 km
- Stations
- Ciudad Libertad Airport, 1.3 km
- Matanzas → Marianao87 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · $9–13
- Santa Clara → Marianao263 km · quickest by road, 4h 38m · $23–31
- Santiago → Marianao6409 km · quickest by air, 15h 5m · CLP$516,980–801,350
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Marianao
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 Marianao. 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 Marianao
Marianao is 8 km from Havana, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.