English versión
In one of the most atractive places in Havana is the Hotel Inglaterra, one of the most beautiful hotels in the city. In today's post I share with you a little tour of this, one of the oldest hotels in Havana, where we can still enjoy its cosy beauty, culture and history.
Old Havana is beautiful, full of tradition with its colonial architecture and buildings. The Hotel Inglaterra is located in one of the most visited and well known areas of the city, in front of the Martí Park, between the busy Prado and St. Rafael streets.
The building was built more than a century ago and is very well preserved thanks to the restoration work being carried out on it. On the day of my visit, there was a team of restorers working on the mosaics on the walls and ceiling, doing meticulous work to conserve and maintain the place.
I arrived at the hotel on a day when I was strolling around and wanted to have a coffee and take a break from the heat and the walk. I wanted to sit on the terrace, in its renowned Café Louvre, once the place where intellectuals and Havana's youth gathered to share their ideas of independence and freedom for colonial Cuba. However, I changed my mind and decided to enter the hotel. I had never entered before and when I did, I marvelled at the elegance and the atmosphere it preserves from other times.
Upon entering I found a large room with several wooden tables and chairs, illuminated by the light of several lamps under a beautifully engraved ceiling full of details. Everything in the place reminds us of a room from another era, columns, stained glass windows, mosaics on the walls, and meticulous ironwork and precious woodwork. For today's times, this is a small hotel, but it doesn't need to be bigger, for me it's perfect as it is.
The modern is always appealing, the advances and technological developments amaze us with all the novelties. However, for me the classic and the antique have a special charm. Durable constructions made without advanced machinery, handmade ornaments that tell us about the history and culture of the places and times in which they were built. That is the magic of the old, and we can find all that in this hotel, one of the reasons why it has been declared a National Monument and Cultural Heritage.
I hope that those who don't know it can visit it, I'm convinced that they will love the place and walking in its surroundings.
PS: The coffee was excellent, I really enjoyed it! ☕
Versión en Español
En uno de los espacios más hermosos de La Habana se encuentra el Hotel Inglaterra, uno de los más bellos de la ciudad. En mi publicación de hoy les comparto un pequeño recorrido por este, uno de los hoteles más antiguos de La Habana, donde aún podemos recrearnos con su acogedora belleza, cultura e historia.
La Habana Vieja es hermosa, llena de tradición con sus edificaciones y su arquitectura colonial. El Hotel Inglaterra está ubicado en una de las zonas más visitadas y conocidas de la ciudad, frente al Parque Martí, entre las concurridas calle Prado y San Rafael.
La edificación tiene más de un siglo de construida y se mantiene muy bien conservada gracias a los trabajos de restauración que se le realizan. Precisamente el día de mi visita, había un equipo de restauradores trabajando en las losas de las paredes y el techo, realizando un trabajo minucioso para conservar y mantener el lugar.
Llegué al hotel un día que estaba recorriendo los alrededores y quise tomarme un café y reposar un poco del calor y la caminata. Quería sentarme en la terraza, en su reconocido Café Louvre, que en otra época fuera el lugar donde se reunían los intelectuales y la juventud habanera para compartir sus ideas de independencia y libertad para la Cuba colonial. Sin embargo, cambié de idea y decidí entrar al hotel. Nunca había entrado antes y al hacerlo, me quedé maravillada con la elegancia y el ambiente que conserva de otros tiempos.
Al entrar me encontré con un gran salón con varias mesas y sillas de madera, iluminado con la luz de varias lámparas bajo un techo con un grabado hermoso y lleno de detalles. Todo en el lugar nos recuerda una estancia de otra época, columnas, vitrales, mosaicos en las paredes, y minuciosos trabajos con herrería y maderas preciosas. Para los tiempos actuales, este es un hotel pequeño, pero no necesita ser más grande, para mí tal como está es perfecto.
Lo moderno siempre es atrayente, los avances y el desarrollo tecnológico nos asombran con todas las novedades. Sin embargo, para mí lo clásico y lo antiguo tienen un encanto especial. Construcciones duraderas realizadas sin maquinarias avanzadas, ornamentos hechos a mano que nos cuentan la historia y la cultura de los lugares y las épocas en que se construyeron. Esa es la magia de lo antiguo, y todo eso lo podemos encontrar en este hotel, una de las razones por las que ha sido declarado Monumento Nacional y Patrimonio Cultural.
Espero que quienes no lo conozcan puedan visitarlo, estoy convencida de que amarán el lugar y pasear por sus alrededores.
PD: El café estuvo excelente, ¡lo disfruté mucho! ☕
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Me gusta como se ven estas edificaciónes coloniales, pero que muy pocos hemos podido visitar como es mi caso. Disfruté mucho de este paseo que nos compartes, muy bonito tal detalle escultorico para el visitante.
Bueno, pues date un brinco por acá, no estás tan lejos... 😉
This hotel really looks very beautiful, reflecting a colonial era that apparently is still alive there, and the sculptures, the furniture, all the decorations are beautiful, I love the photographs you have brought us today, thank you for allowing us this visit through your post
Thanks for your comment friend, I'm so glad you like my post about Hotel Inglaterra.
The Inglaterra hotel has an enviable elegance and environment, I like when they entertain with the piano or the soups of their portals, you look very pretty.The Inglaterra hotel has an enviable elegance and environment, I like when they entertain with the piano or the soups of their portals, you look very pretty.🌹❤️
Yes, I know you like that place very much. It is a beautiful hotel without a doubt.
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Omg this hotel look so fancy and charming, like a perfect place for having a " Big Gatsby" parry style ❤️5
Yes, it's a beautiful hotel, I'm glad you liked it 🤗