Vedado

“Vedado—the commercial heart of ‘modern’ Havana—has been described as ‘Havana at its middle-class best. The University of Havana is here. So are many of the city’s prime hotels and restaurants, virtually all its main commercial buildings, and block after block of handsome mansions and apartment houses in art deco, eclectic, Beaux-Arts, and neoclassical styles—

luxurious and humble alike lining streets shaded by stately jagüeys dropping their aerial roots to the ground.”

—Christopher P. Baker, Moon Cuba Handbook