DESCRIPTION:  This small hotel is a former mansion built for Alderman Count Sotolongo in the 18th century. Surrounding an open-air Spanish-style courtyard, the hotel is full of intimate colonial character.    The Valencia, conveniently located in Havana's historical centre, on a very special corner, is just 200 meters from the Plaza de Armas, the place where Valencians traditionally worshipped. Originally built as a private home at the end of the 18th century and once the property of Sotolongo, a city councillor, the Hostal Valencia now opens its doors to visitors from far and wide. A carved red roof, balustrades and the wrought iron works of its balconies lend freshness and light all its rooms.

ROOMS:  All 12 rooms are different in style and size named after Spanish cities and offer private bathroom, cooling fans, colour TV and refrigerator. Nine mini-suites.  The hotel also offers the very in best Cuban cigars on the first floor at la casa del tabaco.

FACILITIES AND DINING:  You can hear the best music of the fifties at the Nostalgia Bar offers great music and cocktails and there is no finer place to eat paella in all of Havana than in our restaurant, the winner of the top prize at the International Paella Contest in Sueca, Spain, for the past two years.