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 […]
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 […]
There is no doubt: this architect and painter is authentic. Like a puzzle, she rearranges her city of Havana as she wishes, with oil and acrylics on canvas. The spectator who “visits” her work will travel around many places, emblematic or not, and he will discover El Morro, the University of Havana, the Revolution Square, […]
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, […]
You can book your stay at Casa Bernardo y Belkis with NovelaCuba. To where have you arrived? To the house of Bernardo Rodríguez and Blekis Pino who live with their three sons. One of them is a tour guide and speaks English and some French. Bernardo and Blekis like to play a game of domino […]
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 […]
To where have you arrived? To the house of María del Carmen Herrero Infante and José Raúl Mora Sánchez. José Raúl is a chemical engineer and María del Carmen is an economist. Today they are both retired and their work is focused on their guests. They love to cook, walk and practice yoga. Where is […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 (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 (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 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, […]
