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 >

Hemingway Museum: The Refuge of the Writer

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 […]

Visual Poetics of Ileana Mulet

Maybe this could be the great secret of her work: a painting lost in thought, silent, almost whispering, that talks in a low voice, as if it talked to itself… It is like a dialogue with herself, in a quiet voice but asserting realities with the form and the color, or better, looking around with […]

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 […]

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

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 Karen / Casa Vieja 1840

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 […]

Meet Daniel and Erwann / Casa Norma

You can book your stay at Casa Norma with NovelaCuba. Who will host you? Daniel and Erwann, Daniel is Cuban and Erwann is French Where is it ?In Centro Havana but in a non-touristic zone. ‘’So we are immersed in as neighborhood completely surrounded of Havana’s lifestyle! Coming out of the house, to the left […]

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 […]

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 […]

Car rental Cuba 5 exceptional routes

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 […]


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Retazos: Pieces of the Havanan Urban Landscapes

The company of contemporary dance Retazos was founded in 1987 by a Chilean dancer and professor, Isabel Bustos (National Prize of Dance, 2011), and it stands a genuine expression of the fusion of vary artistic manifestations. Today it is a sort of laboratory of ideas, of encounters between different artists; not only from the dance, […]

Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba Ballet: Dancing Eclecticism

Looking for originality, founding something new to say in dance, have been the way that the needle of the artistic compass of Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba  have marked since its beginnings. Of course, guarded always by something fundamental in life that permits to get results: talent and discipline, base of any success… Another characteristic of […]

Ivette Cepeda, Lady Emotion

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 […]

Camerata Romeu, Music for Dreaming

In the panorama of the Cuban music, the Camerata Romeu is a very original group. It was founded by Zenayda Romeu toward 1993, under the auspices of the Pablo Milanés Foundation. It was the first feminine string orchestra in Latin America and the only one in its genre, supported on a good repertory and stage […]

Spanish Ballet of Cuba, a Dialogue with the Roots

The Spanish Ballet of Cuba was founded toward 1987 by the prima ballerina assoluta and director of the National Ballet of Cuba, Alicia Alonso. At the beginning, it was baptized as Group of Spanish Dances of the Great Theater of Havana, later on the name would change to Spanish Ballet of Havana, and then, it […]

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 […]

Alberto Lescay, Painting and Sculpting the Spirit

Alberto Lescay (Santiago de Cuba, 1950), is a contemporary Cuban creator who has authenticated the language of forms and colors. To describe him it is necessary to highlight, first of all, the autochthonous source of his art, that threads and acquires personal sense in the sculptor, painter and draftsman. Lescay is the creator, among many […]

Alicia Leal, Daily Tiny Poems

Alicia Leal (Sancti Spiritus, 1957), painter, draftswoman, ceramist, and photographer, in her more than three decades of irrepressible work between forms and colors, has managed to make her works represent a feeling, a glance to the purely Cuban-Caribbean because they are open doors to us in a pictorial dimension; and she has achieved it through […]

Luis Enrique Camejo, Spiritual/Real Cities

Luis Enrique Camejo was born in 1971, in Pinar del Rio. Between the years 1983 and 1996, he studied at the School of Arts in his native city, the National School of Art (ENA), and the Superior Institute of Art (ISA). The works of this artist could be described in numerous different words. His creativity, […]

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