Hotel Santa Isabel

La Habana villa stands, in all its splendor, the Hotel Santa Isabel, a place keeping the traces of ship-owners, artists, businessmen and illustrious travelers. Turned into a hotel since 1867, the former mansion of the Santovenia Counts remains one of the preferred places for those who decide admiring the city from its history. Famous visitors to the villa, such as the North American Samuel Hazard, who came to Havana in the decade of the nineteenth century’s sixties, have left records of the Santa Isabel qualities. In his work “Cuha with pen and pencil”, Hazard stated that this was a true first-class American hotel, with wide and ventilated rooms, good food and bilingual maids ready to help the ladies, something new in the country at the time.