Old style perfumery where one can buy cologne and perfume with scents such as citrus, jasmine, rose, orange blossom, lavender and tobacco.
If you bring your own container you can purchase the scent for the bargain price of 0.20CUC per 10ml. If you want to splash out you can buy the scent in one of the ceramic perfume containers or bottles of varying sizes that make a nice present.

Mercaderes No 156 bwtn Obrapia & Lamparilla, Habana Vieja.

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Artisan market set in recently refurbished warehouse. Until November 2009 it was located in the streets around the Plaza de la Catedral.

Here you can find all sorts of interesting Cuban souvenirs including beautiful paintings, wonderful photographic prints, guayaberas (traditional shirt), woodwork, leather items, jewellery, painted ceramics and handcrafted cigar boxes (my personal favourite - the best ones can be found from an amiable man
in the centre of the market. He is quite passionate about them!).

Don't always pay what they first ask for. Haggle for a better price.

There are also food venues, money exchange facilities, public toilets and public phones.

Open every day including Sundays and holidays (except national Holidays or when the authorities declare special holidays) from 10am to 6pm.

Avenida del Puerto. Across from the Iglesia de San Francisco de Paula, corner of Calle Leonor Perez (Paula) and Calle San Pedro. 10 minute walk from Plaza San Francisco

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Post-revolutionary poster art was used to promote movies for three decades after the revolution. Some of these stunning hand-printed posters, in blocks of dense colour and influenced by eastern European and Japanese design, can be bought for a few dollars from the shop at the ICAIC (national film institute). They look very cool framed and hung on the wall back home.

ICAIC office, next to the Chaplin cinema, Calle 23, 1155, entre 10 y 12, Vedado.

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