Centro Habana, Barrio Chino & Life Between the Monuments

Centro Habana (the central district of Havana between La Habana Vieja and Vedado — the most densely populated district of the city, the neighbourhood of the ordinary Havanans, with the Barrio Chino (the Chinatown — the largest Chinatown in Latin America in the mid-20th century, now reduced to a few Chinese restaurants and cultural institutions), the Callejón de Hamel (the Afro-Cuban cultural alley), and the Paseo del Prado (the tree-lined boulevard modelled on Las Ramblas in Barcelona)) is the most authentic and least touristy face of contemporary Havana.