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Centro Habana, Havana — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Centro Habana is Havana's most densely settled municipality, a compact quarter holding Barrio Chino and the Napoleon Museum.
About Centro Habana
Where to stay in Centro Habana
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Barrio Chino is the obvious address. Havana's chinatown lies inside Centro Habana, and a stay near it puts the Napoleon Museum, the Quinta de los Molinos and the San Lázaro Tower within the same small municipality. Density is the trade-off. Centro Habana is the most closely built of Havana's fifteen municipalities, so rooms sit among working streets rather than in a quiet quarter, and the Antonio Maceo monument and the First Presbyterian Church are neighbours rather than excursions.
Things to do in and around Havana
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Museums & Galleries
1- Napoleon Museum
Churches & Religious Sites
1- First Presbyterian Church (Havana)
Castles & Historic Sites
2- Quinta de los Molinos
- Antonio Maceo monument, Havana
Landmarks & Notable Places
1- San Lázaro Tower Heritage
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About Centro Habana
What are the main landmarks in Centro Habana?
Five landmarks carry the municipality. The Napoleon Museum and the Quinta de los Molinos sit among them, together with the San Lázaro Tower, the Antonio Maceo monument and the First Presbyterian Church. Barrio Chino belongs to the list too.
Havana's chinatown occupies part of Centro Habana, which puts a museum, a garden estate, a tower, a monument, a church and a chinatown inside four square kilometres.
What is the history of Centro Habana?
Names here carry the older story. The San Lázaro Tower, the First Presbyterian Church and the Quinta de los Molinos each hold a Spanish or a church name, and the Antonio Maceo monument commemorates a figure the city chose to mark in stone. Barrio Chino sits among them.
Havana's chinatown is set inside what is now Centro Habana, so the municipality's record runs through a Chinese quarter alongside the Spanish-named streets around it. Centro Habana's standing as one of Havana's fifteen municipalities places it among the units the city is divided into, a smaller one than most and the most closely built of the set.
Where is Centro Habana?
Centro Habana covers about four square kilometres inside Havana, one of the fifteen municipalities that make up the capital of Cuba.
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Updated October 2026