From the Parque Central you can walk back to the Plaza de Armas along Calle Obispo, now closed to traffic and one of the streets of La Habana Vieja which has seen most restoration, with many shops lovingly restored to their former splendour. There is a small handicrafts market on Obispo entre Aguacate y Compostela, where they sell leather goods, clothes, ceramics and jewellery. Avoid buying coral, which is protected internationally. Sundays are particularly busy. Calle Obrapía, which runs parallel, has some magnificent colonial buildings and many of them are now museums and galleries.
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