Many embassies, including the landmark Russian embassy, are located in Miramar - in particular on Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue) before called Avenida de las Américas (America avenue).
Prior to the Revolution, the neighborhood was home to many of Havana's upscale residents. There are many large houses and mansions here. This district and the Country Club (Cubanacán) were the most glamorous spaces in the Havana of the 50s. There are also some of Havana's more modern hotels such as Hotel Melia Habana, Oasis Panorama Hotel and Occidental Miramar, beaches and private rental houses (known as casas particulares). Also located here is the International School of Havana.
In the late 1990s and 2000s, several office blocks have been built in a complex called Centro de Negocios Miramar - the "Miramar Trade Center".
Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue)
Casa de Alberto de Armas (1926), a restored Beaux-Arts mansion at Calle 2 by architect Jorge Luis Echarte
Reloj de Quinta Avenida at Calle 10, a large clock erected in 1924 in the central median
Museum of the Ministry of the Interior (Museo del Ministerio del Interior) at Calle 12
Casa del Habano (between Calles 14 and 16) (also in the Melia Habana near the Miramar Trade Center and Club Habana)
Parque de los Ahorcados (Park of the Hanged), between Calles 24 and 26, "shaded by massive jagüey trees, seemingly supported by their aerial roots dangling like cascades of water"
Karl Marx Theater (Teatro Karl Marx) in the park
Plaza Emiliano Zapata, with a life-size stone statue of Zapata, Mexico’s revolutionary hero
Parque Prado, with a Romanesque temple and a bronze bust to Mahatma Gandhi
Iglesia de Santa Rita de Casia (at Calle 26) — a modernist church from 1942 which mixes neocolonial and modern features by architect Victor Morales (Cuban architect). Features a modernist statue of Santa Rita by Rita Longa
Gracious mansions, many of them foreign embassies
Iglesia San Antonio de Padua (at Calle 60) — Modernist-style Romanesque church (1949) by architects Eloy Norman and Salvador Figueras
Russian Embassy (1988) (between Calles 62 and 66) by architects Alexander Rochegov and Basilio Piasecki
Occidental Miramar hotel
Hotel Barceló Habana Ciudad (between Calles 76 and 80)
Miramar Trade Center
Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar (between Calles 80 and 82), built in 1953 with a magnificent organ with 5,000 pipes. The restored church features 14 splendid oversize paintings of the Stations of the Cross by Spanish artist César Hombrados Oñativa.
El Ajibe, a restaurant visited by Anthony Bourdain on his Travel Channel program "No Reservations".
