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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You can book your stay at Casa La Siesta with NovelaCuba. To where you arrive? To Sergio Enrique Luis Nodarse’s house, tour guide for 15 years with his wife who is a social worker, and have two children ( age 8 and 6). The house is at complete disposal, the family doesn’t inhabit it, but […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
(The renowned music group has its house at the temple of the of the ancient Real Hospital of San Francisco de Paula, Alameda de Paula, in Old Havana) The Conjunto de Música Antigua Ars Longa is different; although it scrabbles in the sonorous legacy of yesteryear, it doesn’t do musical archaeology. Its presentations trap the […]
With its unusual format that combines trombones, strings, flutes with traditional instruments; and the original arrangements that have been made since its creation, the mythical Cuban group baptized as Los Van Van, over these 50 years of artistic life, has trapped with its Cuban energy the public of Latin America, the United States of America, […]
In the hamlet of San Francisco de Paula lies a museological jewel of Havana, Cuba: Finca Vigía, the residence of the famous writer, where the marks of his life are safeguarded. In the house everything froze and remained in its place, as things were when the writer was around. Only the marks and the order […]
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 […]
Since his stage debut (Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso, on April 8th, 2016) the Acosta Dance Company is integrated by dancers of different academic backgrounds, and its objective is to produce dance shows in accordance with the most modern notions developed in the world, not only in the matter of movement of the […]
The history of Napoleon Bonaparte and the history of the French army are confused in one. To follow the apogee’s trace of the Emperor’s life equals seeing him leading the military campaigns, and assisting to the origins of the Great Army. This army grew excessively: in Austerlitz, Napoleon had 72 thousand soldiers; in Wagram he […]
The creative talent of the artist has mixed over time with cultural roots of different places of the world, showing always the Cuban identity as a protagonist; that is the reason why he is so universal. In addition, he has worked both the figurative art and the abstraction, with everything that is brought by his […]
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 […]
Only pronouncing her name, Maria Eugenia Barrios, is to call synonyms that always guard her: love, passion, professionalism, culture, talent, desire to live/sing, art…, combined with a voice that even now delights and makes us feel under the skin strange sound sensations which awake dreams. Each May 31st, memories overwhelm our soprano María Eugenia Barrios […]
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