The Most Beautiful Historic Hotels of Havana

This story is part of a weeklong Yahoo series marking one year since the opening of relations between the United States and Cuba.

HAVANA — In Cuba’s capital city, four hotels make “travel” seem like “time travel.” These properties evoke the country’s pre-Castro, Mafia-era opulence, with an occasional touch of the revolutionary era that followed. We take a look at the beauty and history of each.

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