Havana, Cuba's main tourist destination, offers a wide range of attractions in its historic heart, where centuries-old traditions and culture are present everywhere.

Old Havana, which was designated Humankind's Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), holds most of the city's museums, churches, cultural centers and buildings from the Spanish colonial period, including 33,000 buildings, most of which were built from the 18th to the 19th centuries.

For those who want to stay in an environment full of centuries-old memories, the company Habaguanex S.A. – attached to the Office of the City Historian –runs a broad network of hotels in Old Havana.

These kinds of small hotels in buildings of great historic and cultural value, along with great hotels, aim to rescue the old tradition of meeting the needs for accommodation in big cities.

Habaguanex S.A. administers at least 19 hotels, 38 restaurants, some 80 shops and 60 cafeterias and bars.

An example is the Hotel del Tejadillo (32 rooms), which consists of three mansions from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. For those who like to cook their own meals, 17 rooms have their own kitchen.

Cigar aficionados can stay at the Hotel Conde de Villanueva, the former mansion of that illustrious nobleman, while El Mesón de la Flota is a reminder of Cuba's position as the Key to the Gulf during the Spanish colonial period.

The long list of establishments administered by Habaguanex also includes the hotels Santa Isabel, Valencia, Ambos Mundos, Florida, Raquel, Palacio O'Farrill, El Comendador, Los Frailes, San Miguel, Beltrán de Santa Cruz, Saratoga and Telégrafo.

In the gastronomic sector, the company runs emblematic restaurants such as

Monserrate, El Baturro, La Zaragozana, Castillo de Farnés, Café del Oriente, La Dominica, Prado y Neptuno and the complexes La Mina and Plaza Vieja.

As a general characteristic, visitors are attracted to the hotels' excellent conditions to rest, quiet and small halls, interior patios with exuberant vegetation and a fountain.

Among Havana's most famous establishments is the Inglaterra Hotel, inaugurated on December 23, 1875, and named after the number-one world power at the time. It was one of the best hotels in the world after being reconstructed in 1886.

Havana also holds a broad network of museums and cultural and sports institutions, which are indispensable elements in recreational programs.