Journey with NovelaCuba:

Meet Thomas / Casa La Reserva

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 […]

National Ballet of Cuba: An Unthinkable Dream in the Caribbean

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 […]

7 Reasons to Rent a Car in Cuba

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 […]

Cuba at the casa particular - discover the casas particulares

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 […]

A Cultural Journey: Exploring the heart of Cuba >

Roberto Diago, Organic Geometry

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, […]

Magic and Mysticism of the National Folk Group

There is no doubt that it is a group of an elevated technique, equipped with a sharp repertory, with evident samples of consolidated experiences and a lot of very well done choreographies, most of which are trackers of our deepest folk traditions. It cannot be different with this company, because the National Folk Group has […]

Gerardo Alfonso… Havana lives in its songs…

The famous Cuban singer-songwriter Gerardo Alfonso, a member of the Nueva Trova of the 1980s, has been influenced as a composer by the likes of Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, as well as by Brazilians Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento. Although his music takes its inspiration from many other genres of Cuban music, including […]

A Journey of Hospitality: the Lives of B&B Owners >

Casa Vista al Valle - Owner interview

Where have you arrived? To house of Osiris Veliz, his wife and three daughters.  Where? In Viñales How it started? Launched in 2009, the house is part of ecotourism project in an agricultural farm that haves impressive views of the valley, for this is its name sake: Vista al Valle (view of the valley) ‘’A […]

Casa Las Artes - Owner interview

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 […]

Meet Thomas / Casa Loft

At whose house?Thomas Verwarcht. Thomas is a Belgian architect. Where is he?In Old Havana. What is it?It’s a 19th century solar, in other words a building that housed several families, in a way the forerunner of apartment buildings. Then part of it was used as a guest house for several years. Thomas and his associates […]

Journey off the Beaten Path: Cuba by Car >

7 Reasons to Rent a Car in Cuba

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 […]

Getting around in Cuba

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. […]

Why rent a car with Novela Cuba? - 8 good reasons to choose Novela Cuba

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 […]


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Hotels in Cuba

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 […]

Douglas Lucas’ Store of Dreams

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 Portuondo, The Buena Vista Social Club Diva

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 […]

The Jungle of…Lidia Aguilera

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 […]

Kadir López, Signs of the Memory

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 […]

José Manuel Fors: Intuition in the Eyes…

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, the Quotidian Marks

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 […]

Ever Fonseca: a Painter jigüe?

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 […]

Nelson Dominguez, Fossils of the Memory

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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