Program description (6 night/ 7 days)
Minimum: 6 person

Day 1
Arrival to Havana International Airport. Transfer to the hotel. Lodging at Hotel Sevilla, located in the Historical Center of the Old Havana. Welcome coctail.

Day 2

Breakfast
10:00 am Visit the National Museum of Fine Art. Universal Art Collection. Tour of 1 hour to see the features of this building, know as the ancient Asturiano Institution in Havana. Also, the group can see one of the collection paintings by country, according their own interest.

11: 00 am Time to rest at Floridita Restaurant. This restaurant and bar was to Hemingway his favorite place. There the Daiquiri cocktail was created which Hemingway helped to make known throughout the world. This bar is situated beside the Museum.

11:30 am Visit The Capitolio de La Havana, today the Scientific Academy.

12:30 pm Lunch at “La Bodeguita del Medio” restaurant, located in Old Havana.

1:30: pm Depart for panoramic tour by bus, including visits to Model of the city, Cristobal Colón Cemetery, the Capitol building, the Gran Teatro opera house, the historic Plaza de la Revolución and the architecturally unique neighbourhoods of Vedado and Miramar.

4:00 pm Return to the hotel

Night: Cultural presentation at Museum of Fine Art. (Optional)

Day 3

10:00 am Visit the National Museum of Fine Art. The museum holds many of the major works from the various periods of development of Cuban art, from the colonial period through today’s young artistic vanguard. The tour will be lead by a guide trained specifically in the museum’s collection. Tour of 1 hour: ¨The Colonial Art Period¨ and ¨The Century Transition¨.

11:00 am Time to rest. Drink a coctail at Bacardí building, one of the most significant exponet of the Art Deco in Cuba. This building, designed in 1930, belongs to Emilio Bacardí and was the most important office of its company.

11:30 Return to the Museum to see ¨The presence of the Contemporary Art¨ and ¨Consolidation of the Modern Art¨. Duration: 1 hour.

12: 30 Visit the Silver Work Museum to appreciate extraordinary pieces and possibility to dialogue with the artists.

1:30: Lunch at ¨ El Patio¨, situated it at Plaza de la Catedral de La Habana, famous for its  Baroque  facade, the zigzagging rhythm of its walls, columns and cornices.

2:30 Visit: Castillo de la Fuerza, Templete, Palacio de los Capitanes Generales (Municipal Museum)  Presidencial Palace and the Havana squares. Continuos visit the Havana Collection with interesting pieces and the Perfume Factory.
 
5:00 Return to the hotel. Free time.

8:00 Visit to the XVIII century San Carlos de La Cabaña fortress at the entrance to Havana Bay. See the nine o'clock cannon blast ceremony. In Spanish colonial times this blast warned the inhabitants that the gates to the city were about to be closed. Then, walk down to the Divina Pastora restaurant for dinner.

Day 4

9:00 am Architecture day. Tour guided by an architect. In these tours, participants will learn about the city´s urban development since its foundation until nowadays, and the most important architectural achievements. Conference and visit to important buildings in restorations.

11:00 Depart to visit the most significant workshops located in the Historical Center:
Zaida del Río, serigraphy workshop and ceramic.

12: 00 Lunch at La Paella restaurant, at Hostel El Comendador, the former home of Don Pedro Regalado Pedroso y Pedroso, Prefect of the Carlos III Order, in the XIII century.

1:00 pm. Visit the most important art galleries of Havana to see the contemporary and recently Cuban paintings: Galería Habana, Galería Villa Manuela and Galería Diago.

4:00 pm: Visit the Havana Club Museum to know everything about the famous ron Havana Club and continues the program with the visit to Partagás Tobacco Factory.

 5:30- 6:00 pm: Return to the hotel

Free night

Day 5
Depart to enjoy the Viñales tour.
Viñales is the most renowned valley of Cuba, and consider National Monument. The major attractions in the valley are the cone-shaped raised mogotes - which are a type of butte - with their exceptional landscapes. The mogotes are inhabited by several plant species such as palm trees and the endemic species.
The tour includes visits to the Prehistoric Mural, Cigar Factory, the Indian Cave (optional tour on a boat). Lunch at Palenque de los Cimarrones. Return to Havana at 4:00 pm.

Night: Depart from the hotel to see a ballet classic presentation or a Camerata Romeu (chamber music), an all-woman string ensemble whose repertory stretches from the baroque to the rumba from Britten and Barber to Piazzolla, from classical pizzicato to tropical syncopation.

Day 6

Breakfast
9:00 Visit the Callejón de Hamel, an original project initiated by the sculptor and painter Salvador Gonzales. This project dating from 1990 highlights the importance of African influences on Cuban culture and the idea was to create a cultural platform within the community.

10:00-10:30 Depart to see a folklore ballet presentation for the Compañía Folclórica de Cuba.

11:00 Visit Art Craft Fair to buy souvenirs.

12:00 Lunch at La Mina, restaurant, situated at Plaza de Armas. International food.

Afternoon and free night

Day 7

Depart to original country.

Prices

Minimum group of 6 person

Double room: 840 USD per person

Single room: 950 USD

These prices include all the services detailed in the description of the program.