Vedado
Vedado is a central business district and urban neighborhood in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Vedado is a central business district and urban neighborhood in the city of Havana, Cuba. Bordered on the east by Calzada de Infanta and Central Havana, and on the west by the Alemendares River and Miramar / Playa district, Vedado is a more modern part of the city than the areas to the east, developed in the first half of the 20th century, during the Republic period. In 2016 it was described by one commentator as the city's "most affluent" section. The main street running east to west is Calle 23, also known as "La Rampa". The northern edge of the district is the waterfront seawall known as the Malecón, a famous and popular place for social gatherings in the city. The area popularly referred to as 'Vedado' consists of the wards of Vedado, Rampa, Vedado-Malecón and Carmelo, all in the municipality of Plaza de la Revolución.
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Worth seeing in and around Vedado
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.
- 01University of Havana
The University of Havana is a public university located in the Vedado district of Havana, the capital of Cuba. Founded on 5 January 1728, it the university is the oldest in Cuba, and one of the first to be founded in the Americas.
1.3 km · university located in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 02Old 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.
3.7 km · World Heritage site and municipality of Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 03Havana 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.
4.5 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 04Museum 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.
4 km · museum dedicated to history of the revolution on Cuba, located in Havana · Wikipedia - 05San 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.
4.9 km · Spanish colonial fort in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 06National 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.
1.4 km · Cuba National Library · Wikipedia - 07Colón 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 km · cemetery in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 08Christ 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.
5.2 km · sculpture · 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.
1.4 km · building in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia - 10National 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.
4 km · art museum in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia
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Getting to Vedado
- Airports
- José Martí (HAV), 16 km · Juan Gualberto Gomez (VRA), 99 km · Abel Santamaria (SNU), 261 km
- Stations
- Havana Central railway station, 4 km · Ciudad Libertad Airport, 6.1 km
- Matanzas → Vedado84 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · $8–11
- Santa Clara → Vedado262 km · quickest by road, 4h 38m · $22–31
- Santiago → Vedado6415 km · quickest by air, 15h 24m · 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 Vedado
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 Vedado. 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 Vedado
Vedado is 1 km from Havana, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Havanacapital and largest city of Cuba3.7 km
- Marianaomunicipality of Havana, Cuba6.7 km
- Reglamunicipality of Havana, in Cuba5.9 km
- Guanabacoadistrict in Province Havana, Cuba9.6 km
- Plaza de la Revoluciónmunicipality in Havana, Cuba1.1 km
- Cerromunicipality of Havana, Cuba4.8 km