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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It is the house of Konrad Marchegger, Italian, native of the Dolimitas area, there for he is a man from the mountains. He arrived to Cuba for the first time in the year 2000 and liked the island so much that he decided to go discover it for himself and search for a place to […]
Cuba is one of those rare destinations where it is possible to rent a car with a driver. An old-fashioned luxury that flirts with the nostalgia of old American cars and the change of scenery of a certain Latino elsewhere. Let Novela Cuba take the wheel for you! Car rental with driver in Cuba Let’s […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
