Havana, Cuba: Timeless Beauty, Art & 500-Year History

Havana is audacious, contradictory, and beautifully resilient despite decades of neglect. Shaped by piracy, colonialism, mobster rule, independence wars, revolution, US embargo, and indefatigable salsa energy from its people, it seduces with an open mind. Its art scene surprises at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and Fábrica de Arte Cubano. Restored by City Historian Eusebio Leal Spengler, Habana Vieja's streets reveal 500 years of history in coastal fortifications, plazas, museums, and echoes of US and USSR ties.