This afternoon "bury" to San Pedro in Camagüey

Camagüey. Today in the afternoon will be the official closing of the San Juan's traditional parties 2010, with the one denominated “bury of San Pedro”, a tragicomic show with which the people of Camagüey says goodbye to the party that anyway continues until the night, when in each area the drink finishes and turn off the musical horns.

June 29 constitute one of the most important dates in the parties, during the journey those “weepers”, accompanied by men, many with bottles of rum in hand, carry out cries faked by San Pedro's death that is represented with a puppet made with old clothes, stuff of dry grass and cloths, which can be taken in a casket or mounted in a wheelbarrow, to finish burnt.

This way, in the Square of the Freedom will be the traditional one " bury”, after the itinerary of a gigantic conga with the one that the people of Camagüey says goodbye to its summer revel.

This representation that also, is carried out in other towns of Cuba, for the people of Camagüey is indissoluble part of the folkloric local San Juan.
Effective from the XVIII century, the San Juan of Camagüey had its origin in the crossroad of celebrations coming from Europe and fairs of livestock sale in the then Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe.

That century is considered that of the full development of the village, today Camagüey whose older sector of its last establishment possesses the status of Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity. (Jorge Luis Peix Agüero)

Anticipate wide participation Infantile San Juan of Camagüey

The Infantile San Juan of Camagüey-to be made next Sunday 27 -, omens to be one of those more nurtured as for contents and passivity, in the participation of school.

Conceived as one of the proposals of the carnivales parties of the capital -to be made between the 24 and the 29 of the present June -, will take part four coaches, eight congas and three processions, besides clowns and other attractions.

The journey already traditional, will begin at eight in the morning from beginnings of the Avenue of the Freedom and will extend until the vicinity of the Square of the same name, where the jury will be located.

Students of the Basic Primary and Secondary teachings, besides cultural projects as "Harlequin", of the Office of the Historian of the City (OHCC) and of the Houses of Culture, will enrich with their evolutions the San Juan that will have the wide support of the gastronomic services.

As it is habitual, the beautiful Country Casino will also be scenary for this postal villager that pays one of the oldest and prospective components in the old village of Puerto Príncipe, current capital of Camagüey. (Yolanda Ferrera Sosa)

Camagüey in its new San Juan's preamble

The congas already announces, with their street rehearsals, the San Juan's proximity (carnival) that with its more than two centuries of existence will return to this city from next Thursday.

The project of the new edition of one of the most picturesque carnivalesque appointments in the Island includes 61 artistic groupings and soloists, five congas walks, processions, coaches, disguises and other attractions, according to data offered to the press by the organizing commission.

Those parades will be the 25, 26 and 28 for central roads, and in the allotments Lenin, Previsora and Julio Antonio Mella the 27, day in the one which, also, children and adolescents will play the journey in the Avenue of the Freedom.

The inaugural day will insert “sanjuaneras” traditions, as the preparation and ajiaco consumption in the blocks, during activities favored by the Committees of Defense of the Revolution.

The program will have its official closing the 29 with another of the emblems of the parties, the one denominated Funeral of San Pedro, in the Square of the Freedom, after the itinerary of a gigantic conga with which the people of Camagüey says goodbye to its summer revel.

Effective from the XVIII century, the San Juan of Camagüey had its origin in the crossroad of celebrations coming from Europe and fairs of livestock sale in the then Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe.

That century is considered that of the full development of the village, today Camagüey whose older sector of its last establishment possesses the status of Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity. (Adolfo Silva Silva)