Hotel Nacional. Photo: Bill Hughes. Try forty-three minutes! This is the time it took, on May 9, 2016, for our chartered jet plane to fly 228 miles from Miami, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. As it ...

Cuba’s capital city needs little introduction. Truly one of a kind, this colourful and vivacious place feels like a moving time capsule – one that has retained its Fifties glamour despite decades of ...

One recent night in Havana, I stared out the window of my friend’s house in the now faded middle-class Vedado neighborhood. A weary 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air wheezed past, trailed by a beaten-up ...

Havana is the capital city of Cuba, located on the north coast of the island. It is the largest city in Cuba and has a population of around 2.1 million people. Havana is a popular tourist destination, ...

Revealing a Havana that was once off-limits, beyond the architectural first impression. In 2016, the U.S. government made it easier to visit Cuba. Now, a Cuban cultural expert shows us Havana once off ...

Havana, Cuba, still seems like a complete and utter mystery to most people—especially Americans. With so much history and culture, the alluring draw of this off-limits city is bringing more and more ...

When Isadora Tattlin (a pseudonym), goes looking for ice cream, she whines that all Havana has is cheap street stands dispensing tiny vanilla cones. But when Joseph Scarpaci, Roberto Segre and Mario ...

Now that the Obama administration is working to reestablish diplomatic relations with the largest island nation in the Caribbean, there’s a lot of optimism that Cuba’s capital city, Havana, and its ...

His decades-long effort to preserve a capital’s colonial buildings turned a former slum into a tourist destination and capitalist success story. By Steven Kurutz Eusebio Leal Spengler, who led an ...