You can book your stay at Casa La Reserva with NovelaCuba. At whose house?Thomas Verwarcht. Thomas is a Belgian architect. Where?In the Vedado. And how?Thomas welcomes you to his dream house as an architect. The spirit of the houseIf Casa La Reserva were a person… for Thomas “it would be an old lady who has […]
A big dream come true: the creation of a classical ballet company on a small Caribbean island is celebrated every year on October 28th. The calendar travels backwards, it stops on this day of the tenth month of the year 1948… and the memory emerges: Alicia, Fernando and Alberto Alonso, the trilogy of the convinced […]
Renting a car in Cuba does not work the same way as anywhere else in the world. Here are our tips to take the road with peace of mind! Because Cuba is first and foremost a huge favorite, at Novela Cuba we wanted to save you time thanks to our experience in the field and […]
How to recognize a casa particular? A casa particular is accommodation in a private house or in the home of the local people. The activity of casas particulares requires a license that is indicated for each accommodation by a blue logo. When the logo is red, it means that the license only allows the house […]
Pedro Pablo Oliva belongs to that species of men that is on the edge of extinction, and for that reason he deserves to be preserved. His works will bring to the receptor the pleasure of a solid product, mature and of a strong personality. To perceive each vision “made by him”, the spectator requires of […]
When we deep into the pieces of the artist Vicente Hernández (Batabanó, 1971) the sight and the senses are trapped in a vertiginous way. It is a magnet that attracts, a voice that shouts at us, a field that invites us to enter through its labyrinths and to explore the structures of all kind of […]
Painting? Engraving? Ceramics? Drawing? Sculpture? The artistic frontiers of Alfredo Sosabravo (Sagua la Grande, 1930) have been broken through the time. His present work in any of the forms, including glass (with fantastic pieces made in Murano, Venice), is in constant mutation. This could be considered a “hybrid” of creative experiences, a labyrinth of numerous […]
You can book your stay at Casa las Artes with NovelaCuba. To where have you arrived? To Roidley Pérez Navarro’s house who is an artist. His studio is within the house. If you choose to stay here you a subject to be a privileged witness of the creative process. At the same time from being […]
You can book your stay at Casa Vieja 1840 with NovelaCuba. At whose house?Karen Martinez. Where?Just 30 metres from the Plaza Vieja, in the historic centre of Old Havana. Where?A bed and breakfast completely renovated in 2012. ArchiImmersion in the colonial style. Inside, a refreshing wave of blue bathes the rooms with beams and doors […]
To where have you arrived?To the house of Diana and Andrea Gallina, a Cuban-Italian couple that brought together the best of Italy and Cuba in this Boutique Hotel. In the year 2016 they opened ‘’Paseo 206’’ and its restaurant ‘’Ecléctico’’, after 20 years of living abroad dedicated to developing their projects. ‘’We have travelled a […]
What are the means of transportation available? TAXI There are four alternatives for taxi transportation: three private and one shared. We recommend the private taxi for a day trip. A collective taxi is not an opportunity to meet the local population, because most of the time they are reserved either for Cubans or for tourists. […]
Renting a car in Cuba does not work the same way as elsewhere in the world. Here are our tips to travel with peace of mind! How to make the right choice? Which Cuban car rental company to choose? First specificity: do not expect to find in Cuba the usual international car rental companies (Avis, […]
Renting a car in Cuba does not work the same way as anywhere else in the world. Here are our tips to take the road with peace of mind! Because Cuba is first and foremost a huge favorite, at Novela Cuba we wanted to save you time thanks to our experience in the field and […]
Each city or town has its artist. If you pass by Jaimanitas, this coastal spot in the western part of Havana, don’t miss the intersection of 226th and 3rd A, Miramar. There you will breathe in the habitat of an original artist, you will touch the creative world of José R. Fuster. You will see […]
Manuel Mendive carries the myths in his bones. They come out to the outside world transformed into poetry, energy and color. The fantasies, traditions and realities from the Afro-Cuban imaginary land on his pieces – true trophies to the good taste – where the original dreams and the live seen through time walk around freely. […]
Eduardo Roca (Choco) is like the graphic arts, a book full of surprises. He has the musical capacity to make variations with a theme up to the incredible; and his favorite images are the man and the woman, their world of things and the surrounding nature: figures, places and situations transmuted by his imagination to […]
He was born in Havana on September 10th, 1958. Since he was little, he showed his love for the music, and his natural talent. At a very young age he began his music studies, first at Alejandro García Caturla Conservatory, later at Amadeo Conservatory with Vivian Lamata and César López, and finally at the Superior […]
Miriam Ramos is a singer, composer, guitarist, announcer and actress who began her career in the Polyphonic Choir of Havana, conducted by Serafín Pro. Accompanied by the master Frank Emilio Flyn, she made her debut as a soloist in the Museum of Fine Arts on May, 1964. Since that moment she is considered a defender […]
Haydée Milanés was born on September 28th, 1980. She initiated her musical studies when she was 6 years old, at Manuel Saumell Conservatory, in Havana, where she began studying piano. Then she continued studying Choir Direction. Later on she graduated from the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory where she studied Musical Theory. Afterwards, she improves her studies […]
As it happens often in the plastic arts, a kind of complex narration sometimes anachronistic, is presented to us; or a synthesis that touches minimalism and obliges us to imagine what is not represented or, on the contrary, to represent the unimaginable… Roberto Diago (Havana, 1971) situates us in front of the undecipherable, the primitive, […]
Pedro Pablo Oliva belongs to that species of men that is on the edge of extinction, and for that reason he deserves to be preserved. His works will bring to the receptor the pleasure of a solid product, mature and of a strong personality. To perceive each vision “made by him”, the spectator requires of […]
In her pictorial work, she tries to discover the secret of nature. Flora -honoring her name- grows, she multiplies in flowers, trees or woods, and she moves at the rhythm of the wind. Because the air, which becomes hurricane, cyclone, typhoon or simply breeze, can be seen walking through the gesture of lines, shades and […]
