9:30 am ~ Four Plazas Habana Vieja Walking Tour

Start our trip by getting to know the historic core of Havana. In this UNESCO World Heritage Site, one can find extraordinary Colonial architecture of Cuban baroque and art nouveau, both well preserved and decayed, many galleries, contemporary centers, boutique museums, and little shops. We'll start with the Plaza de la Catedral. Here, we’ll visit the collective graphic arts workshop, Taller de Gráfica. This public studio for local artists was established by Pablo Neruda and Che Guevara at the beginning of the Revolution as a co-op where artists living and visiting Havana could work on printmaking. Next, we'll see an exhibit at the Wilfredo Lam Center. We'll continue on to la Plaza de las Armas, Havana’s first square and the origin point of the city’s settlement. The next public square of our walking tour is the Plaza Vieja where two of Havana’s most important contemporary art centers, El Centro del Desarollo de Arte Contemporánea and la Fototeca de Cuba. Our final stop of the morning is the Plaza San Francisco where we'll see the Camerata Romeu perform in the beautiful Basílica San Francisco de Asís.