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 […]
The charismatic singer Ivette Cepeda, in each concert, unleashes enthusiasm, attracts love, travels by several paths of the song and holds us by the hand, in her particular way, through those visited places of passion that she knows perfectly. She offers some unforgettable instants with the music, her voice, and her limitless interpretation that is […]
She is, and has always been, an original artist. Hardworking. A dreamer that is also very realist. She is in love with ART, in plural. And although she is surrounded by other creative sons in her daily struggle through the years: paintings, drawings, ceramics…, it is the volume, the sculpture, that has always been her […]
Since Art has the magic to catch for the eternity the expression/impression of the creator, it would be enough to mention three of the works of the Cuban sculptor Jilma Madera (Pinar del Río, 1915-Havana, 2000) to refer to that artistic marks that exist to immortalize her: The Christ of Havana; the monument to José […]
You can book your stay at Casa Colonial Isabel Castro with NovelaCuba. Whose house?Today you are in the home of José Roselló and Isabel Castro. But in the 1940s this house belonged to the honorary vice-consul of Norway, a certain Pelayo Simón Santos, a Spanish emigrant from Tarna in Asturias. He was a well-known personality […]
To where have we arrived?To Gerlinde Ladera’s house. From Switzerland, multilingual, versatile, open minded, has a passport for curiosity and good taste. As a professional nurse, she studied economy and art history in France, then she turned to psychotherapy, instructor, specializes in non-violent communication and is a passionate cook. She is also mother of one […]
You can book your stay at Casa del Puerto with NovelaCuba. At whose house?Jean-Philippe Fletgen. Where?Next to Havana harbour, in Old Havana.The house is located 2 minutes from Havana Bay, 5 minutes from the Plaza Vieja near the San José artisanal market and the Alameda de Paula, which was the first maritime passage of the […]
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, […]
Since 2001 Novela Cuba has been present in Cuba and has established privileged links with car rental companies. Today, we are the specialist in car rental on the island. We know the ins and outs of the car rental business and offer outstanding customer service. To take the road without stress, here are 8 good […]
Taste a wind of freedom! That’s the invitation we give you at Novela Cuba. We have traveled for you the most beautiful roads of the island. Here are our favorites. Whether you are looking for a 15-day Cuba autotour, a Cuba autotour review, a Cuba autotour review or a Cuba autotour trip, find all our […]
Where to stay in Cuba? If Novela Cuba strongly recommends the casas particulares for a real slice of local life, some travelers will want to live the Cuban hotel experience. We help you make the right choice. Exploring Cuba means discovering tropical forests, beaches with crystal clear waters, steep canyons; strolling through bustling colonial cities […]
The world of Douglas Lucas is like the one we live in, but the skin is different. The artist breaths daily between filigree and ironwork, and in each new piece he gives us an adventure of creation related with time. In a fast process in which he merges with his wide imagination, he assembles the […]
Omara, the one who doesn’t need more surnames and epithets, has a place in the firmament of the Cuban music, she is a great son and bolero singer. It was not by chance that she was named The Diva of Buena Vista Social Club or The Bride of Feeling. All of these in spite of […]
She is, and has always been, an original artist. Hardworking. A dreamer that is also very realist. She is in love with ART, in plural. And although she is surrounded by other creative sons in her daily struggle through the years: paintings, drawings, ceramics…, it is the volume, the sculpture, that has always been her […]
Numerous words can be used to describe the work of Kadir López (Las Tunas, 1972). His artistry and creativity follow an escalating process among the most important artists of Cuban contemporary plastic arts. The reason is clear: his creations open to the verbal praise, as well as the consolidation of the eloquent admiring silence, typical […]
Photography today is confronted from different angles. José Manuel Fors (Havana, 1956), is not a photographer in the traditional sense of the word. He reconstructs the image from caught documents, and manipulates the perceptive experience that reaches a point between abstraction-imagination, leaving at the end an interesting photographic vision of painting that plays with the […]
Julio Girona (Manzanillo, Cuba, 1914 – Havana, 2002), painter, draftsman, caricaturist and also writer and poet, was a prolific creator who always seemed to act as if he wanted to escape from the manners and solutions that he himself generated. To look at his creations is to find every time objects and notes, persons that […]
At first sight, when we look at the artist´s play, the color appears catching us in a weave of shapes and colors. Later on, going inside the varied germinations that cover his paintings, we just walk on solid ground through this natural maze where the true sense of the peculiar language of the Cuban and […]
In front of the work of Nelson Dominguez (painter, draftsman, illustrator, engraver, ceramist and sculptor), National Prize of the Plastic Arts 2009, we have the unequivocal impression of being before something original, unique; something unbeatable beyond the meaning that the style seems to have in art. Since he understood from the beginning that in this […]
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