Havana/Art

4 Art Landmarks in Havana

4 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Callejón de Hamel
~2 min

Callejón de Hamel

Callejón de Hamel, Centro Habana, Havana, Cuba

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Callejón de Hamel is a two-block alley in Centro Habana covered with murals, sculptures, and found-object assemblages created since 1990 by the Afro-Cuban artist Salvador González Escalona as a public monument to Afro-Cuban religion and culture.

Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC)
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Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC)

Fábrica, La Habana Vieja, Havana, Cuba

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The Fábrica de Arte Cubano is Havana's most exciting cultural space — a converted cooking-oil factory in Vedado that houses contemporary art galleries, performance spaces, a cinema, bars, and a dance floor in a single complex that has become the epicentre of Havana's creative scene since opening in 2014.

Fusterlandia (José Fuster's Art Project)
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Fusterlandia (José Fuster's Art Project)

Jaimanitas, Playa, Havana

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Fusterlandia is one of the most extraordinary public art projects in the world — a neighbourhood in Jaimanitas (a fishing village west of central Havana) that artist José Fuster has been transforming since the 1990s by covering every available surface — his house, his neighbours' houses, bus stops, park benches, walls, and entire street blocks — in colourful mosaic tilework that draws from Gaudí, Picasso, and Cuban folk art in a style that is joyful, excessive, and completely unique.

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Trocadero & Zulueta, La Habana

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The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is Cuba's national art museum — housed in two buildings near the Capitolio, with one dedicated to Cuban art from the colonial period to the present (the Arte Cubano building) and the other to international art (the Arte Universal building, in the former Centro Asturiano).

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