Café Havana
Cuban-style salsa bar and dance hall born from one owner's bet on a once-avoided corner.
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This guide to Cafe Havana in Cartagena's Getsemani district is built around one gamble: why, in 2006, a bar owner named Gabriel Mas chose the single corner locals warned him to avoid. It traces his years running a smaller bar nearby, the Cuban song that gave the new bar its motto, and the black-and-white photographs and live stage he built around it. You'll hear about the mix of visitors, from a former president to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who ended up drinking here alongside neighborhood regulars. Come by around eleven, when the band starts.
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