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1950s American cars still running as daily transport, live son and salsa spilling out of Havana's streets, and a Caribbean coastline with some of the region's least-developed beaches.
Explore Cuba on the map →Thousands of pre-embargo American cars remain in daily use as taxis, kept running through decades of improvised mechanical ingenuity.
A UNESCO-listed colonial core of restored plazas and crumbling facades side by side, best explored slowly on foot over a full day.
Live son, salsa, and Afro-Cuban rhythms fill clubs and street corners most nights — Casa de la Musica is a classic, but smaller neighborhood spots are often better.
A near-perfectly preserved 16th-century sugar-boom town, with cobbled streets and pastel houses that see far fewer visitors than Havana.