Centro Habana

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Vacation Rentals in Centro Habana

Havana Central (Centro Habana) is the "popular" downtown of Havana City, even if the zone si quite busy, we can find everything and it is close to everything. Vacation rentals are in excellent conditions and, regarding the houses for sale, you can find there good deals. The best area of Havana Central is the one near to the Malecón littoral, or the zone on the boundaries with Old Havana, where you can find the best houses, either for rent and for sale.

General Description of Centro Habana

Despite of its big importance Centro Havana is the smallest municipality of Havana City province and none of its 342 hectares of ground are used for agriculture. It's a small and dense municipality, in fact, it's the one with the greater population density per square kilometer (46.7 thousand inhabitants per /km²).

Centro Havana is the natural continuation of Old Havana to the point that both municipalities tend to be confused each other. Many of the important and popular places that normally are associated with Old Havana, actually belong to Centro Havana. Among them, we may cite the National Capitol, the Fraternity Park, the San Rafael Boulevard, the corner Prado and Neptuno, the National Balet of Cuba and the small Chinatown. Geographically, and from an administrative point of view, Centro Havana and Old Havana are separated by Prado Avenue. Everything at the West of Prado belongs to Centro Havana, while everything at the East of Prado is Old Havana. Even if people are able to distinguish between the two, normally when one says "I go to Havana" he is going to the geographic area where both Centro Havana and Old Havana are located.

Although is so strictly binded with Old Havana and despite his many places of interest, Centro Havana doesn't possess the same historic value, it's more a commercial and metropolitan zone, but, at the same time, we can't consider it as a modern downtown. Historically, it was the zone where most boutiques and business were located. Today, even if is still an area highly commercial, it was eventually surpassed by the Vedado and Miramar districts, meaning that the prestige of the commerces in these zone is superior. Despite of that, it's still in Centro Havana, and not in the Vedado or Miramar, where we can say "we can find everything". Old Havana too has many commerces, but it's about commerces more craftmade or artistic, without taking into account that it's in Old Havana most prestigious restaurants and hotels can be found, while Centro Havana has much less restaurants and the few hotels have less category, nevertheless the vacations rentals are very good there. Centro Havana is really a merchant town, no much more.

Still, it's a municipality with full of history and it belongs at a whole to the traditional center of the city. It's the transition between the traditional, old Havana (yes, "old" is here an adjective, not a noun, so the lowercase is intentional), and the modern Havana, for this it's called Centro Havana, not because it's a center, but because it is in the middle of two centers.

Renting a vacation rental in Centro Habana is convenient because it's more practical than Old Havana in terms of transportation and, at the same time, it's near to all the interesting zones, including this latter.