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  Our Cuban Fine Art Tours

If you are an individual or a small group of people planning a visit to Cuba, here we are to organize your Architecture and Art Tours in Havana City.

The Architecture Tour
We can show the most relevant of Cuban architecture by showing interesting places in Old and modern Havana.
In Old Havana, the walking tour covers the four squares there are: Plaza de Armas (Arms Square), Plaza de San Francisco de Asís (Saint Francis Square), Plaza de la Catedral (Cathedral Square) and Plaza Vieja (Old Square). All of are surrounded by significant buildings, among them La Fuerza Castle, Museum of General Captains, San Francisco de Asis convent and others. In Old Havana, the tour will give you the idea of Havana City before 19th century. The tour also includes visit to Model of Old Havana, which has an astonishing replica of sunrises and sunsets in Old Havana.

The Modern Havana tour will take you to some important buildings like University of Havana, Colon Cemetery, and some eclectic mansions in El Vedado neighborhood, and you will take important avenues like Prado Avenue, on the border between Old Havana and Centro Habana; Paseo Avenue in El Vedado and 5th Avenue in Miramar neighborhood.

The Old Havana tour is a walking tour, though for Modern Havana tour you will need transportation. If you think your energy doesn't go away so easily, we recommend you to take the Old Havana tour in the morning and the modern Havana tour in the afternoon. Otherwise, and if you are definitely interested in having both tours you could set them for different days. As summertime in Cuba can be very hot, we will set for you an air-conditioned transportation for the modern Havana tour. For the Old Havana tour we can do nothing but recommend a good bar where you can have a delicious and refreshing Cuban drink. Architecture tours will be led by one of the prominent architects Cuba counts on, being also professor at the Faculty of Architecture in University of Havana.

The Art tour

By taking this tour you can get to meet the most famous of Cuban artists and also the new ones now emerging in the current Fine Arts scene. Prominent Cuban painters, sculptors and photographers, despite the fact of many awards or being internationally well-known can be simple and extremely talkative with people they have not met before. You could visit their galleries, studios, workshops and even their houses, where most of them have set their exposition and eventually you could buy some pieces of their work.

Usually our Art Tours start in Old Havana, by visiting Nelson Dominguez's gallery, Choco´s and others nearby. The San Francisco de Paula Church is also visited, for there are plenty of masterpieces by the most important Cuban artists. The church, that used to be a maternity hospital, is now a concert hall and allows visitors to enter at daylight to appreciate the works that has inside. After that, we can turn to some other neighborhoods like El Vedado and/or Miramar where some other artists have their houses/studios. We can arrange visits to Cuban artists´ houses or studios according to your interests, so the tour depends on what you would like to see. Names like Tomás Sánchez, Wifredo Lam, Manuel Mendive, Roberto Fabelo, Gilberto Frómeta, Juan Carlos Alom, Zaida del Rio, Flora Fong, Adigio Benítez, Ever Fonseca, Choco, Juan Moreira, Alicia Leal, KCho, José Villa and many others will be very familiar to you after taking this tour.

Cuban art is so rich and diverse, that we count on you to tell us where to guide you to serve you better. This Art tour is led by a Cuban Art specialist, who has been involved for years in the work of Cuban artists.

We can also arrange for you a guided visit to the Fine Arts Museum, where you will be explained about the different collections that are exhibited in this very recently restored institution.

We are flexible enough and we can adjust the Architecture and Art Tours to your interests. Depending on how much you want to learn and how much time or energy you want to spend on these tours. You can take any of them without having the other necessarily.

Price includes necessary transportation and will depend on how many people you are, how many artists and places you would like to visit and how many hours of the Art tour you would like to have.

So, it´s up to you now to contact us and tell us what you would like your tours to be like, and all the services you need, we are open to your suggestions and willing to serve you in the best of possible ways.

But, if you only want to know about the best of Cuban Fine Arts but have no idea of what to do, we´ll set everything up for you.

You will be glad you did it!

So, contact us now by sending an email to:

[email protected]

Last Updated: April 30th, 2003





Old Havana´s Lonja del Comercio
 
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Lonja del Comercio in Old Havana in front of Plaza de San Francisco
 

 

Plaza Vieja in Old Havana
Plaza Vieja in Old Havana
 
Prado Avenue
 
 
Prado Avenue
 
 
University of Havana
 
 
University of Havana
 
 
Nelson Domínguez
 
 
Nelson Domínguez in his gallery in Old Havana
 
 
 
Juan Moreira
 
 
Painting by Juan Moreira
 
Flora Fong
Flora Fong´s
"Hoja de Tabaco"
 
Lennon Statue
John Lennon Statue
in Havana City
by José Villa

 

Fine Arts Museum - Centro Asturiano

Fine Arts Museum -
Centro Asturiano
 

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