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Hotel Raquel
By: Hache G | Photos: Roberto Campos & Hotel Raquel archives
Entering the Hotel Raquel in the heart of Old Havana many are surprised by the beautiful jewish paintings, sculpture and furniture in the lobby. The original building achieved its present Art Nouveau style in 1908 and much of the recent stunningly renovated interior pays homage to the female figure: the Biblical Rachel, beloved wife of jacob.
This small boutique hotel contains a stone, brought especially from the hills of jerusalem, the city considered holy by the three main religions in the world. Near it is Diaspora or Los Olvidados (The Forgotten), an oil painting by famous Cuban painter Victor Manuel depicting the agony of the jewish passengers on the Saint Louis that anchored off Havana's coast in 1939, but never reached Cuban land.
Entering the Hotel Raquel in the heart of Old Havana many are surprised by the beautiful jewish paintings, sculpture and furniture in the lobby. The original building achieved its present Art Nouveau style in 1908 and much of the recent stunningly renovated interior pays homage to the female figure: the Biblical Rachel, beloved wife of jacob.
jerusalem, the city considered holy by the three main religions in the world. Near it is Diaspora or Los Olvidados (The Forgotten), an oil painting by famous Cuban painter Victor Manuel depicting the agony of the jewish passengers on the Saint Louis that anchored off Havana's coast in 1939, but never reached Cuban land.
