TERRAZA PAVO REAL
Ing. Juan A. Marti Vazquez
Calle Santa Rita (Diego Palacios) 302, entre y San Pedro (General Lacret) y San Felix (Hartmann), steps from Parque Cespédès and the terrace of the Casa Granda Hotel. Tel. (22) 65-8589 cel. 53 40 27 93

It still offers two very well furnished ac bedrooms with ensuites, one has two beds a double and a single; an imposing and majestic colonial-style entrance cum lovingly-decorated living room, a remarkable dining room opening onto a vast patio with chairs and tables and a fountain with waterbasin at one end.

From here a corkscrew original stairway (painstakingly redone) leads through the neighbor's floor upstairs to a roof terrace with sun awning (ranchon) with royal peacocks — from there are unencumbered views of downtown and the cathedral on Cespedes park.

Juan Marti is well-travelled, has friends in Europe, knows colonial architecture and collects artefacts, art and objects from bygone centuries.

Altogether, his family members (two sisters in Bayamo, parents nearby and a brother also in town) have all been renting to travellers for more than a decade.

"One of the best casas particulares in Cuba ", Lonely Planet Cuba 2016

* He used to rent at Padre Pico 614; it is now named Villa Roma - see elsewhere on our main list. Phone used to be (22) 62-2917. It belongs to someone who does not rent.

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Updated 05.09.2017