The Belen Neighborhood

The Belen Neighborhood In the area near Plaza Vieja, east of Avenida de Belgica (Egido) between the streets of Teniente Rey and Merced, you will find the neighborhood of Belen, which was the great religious center of colonial Havana, full of churches and convents.  The 18th and 19th centuries witnessed a wave of ecclesiastical construction,…

Hemingway’s Traces in Old Havana

Three places in Old Havana are very much linked to American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The Hotel Ambos Mundos, on the corner of Calle Obispo and Mercaderes, at Room 511, was Hemingway’s home on and off throughout the 1930’s, and it was where he shaped the plot of For Whom the Bell Tolls. His room has…