It is the capital of the Republic of Cuba with a population of 2.2 million and was built in 1515.

It has a semitropical climate. The average temperature of year is 25`C, and the highest is 35`C. As an island country with sea breeze, it will prevent you from suffering the provoking broil. Especially when you stand in the tree shadow, even at noon time when the burning sun is high, the breeze from the sea may give you a nice kind of coolness.

Havana is divided into two parts, the old part and the new part. In the east is the old Havana and in the west is the Vedado Area. There are many key points of interest and historic sites in the old Havana. The structures there belong to an exceptive style, so the UNESCO claimed it a world historic legacy in 1982. Before Castro got the regime, Cuba had all along been the backyard of Americans. Rich Americans had built a lot of luxurious villas in Havana, all in the Vedado Area. When the revolution triumphed, most of these villas became locus of foreign consulates.
Cuba has a lot of beautiful beaches; especially the white-sanded Varadero beach is world famous. It is really fair and charming under the proper palms of the southland.
Now the government has paid much attention to the tourist resource exploitation. According to the statistic of 1999, foreign exchange income gained by tourism had been more than one billion dollars.