Will be declared officially urban historical center of Camagüey Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity

Camagüey Jan 21.The sector of the city of Camagüey declared Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, will be proclaimed officially with that condition the next February two, anniversary 495 of the traditional date of the foundation of the formerly village .

The ceremony will happen linked with an artistic show in the park Iganacio Agramonte, old Square of Weapons, where began to be born the last location of the Village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, today Camagüey.

Dedicated to one of the first stable populational nucleo constituted by the Spaniards in the New World, the project for the date has artistic, literary, historical, political, recreational and sport character.

The programming includes activities like the symposium “Challenges in the handling and administration of the cities”, and the presentation of the Net of Offices of the Historian and of the Conservative of the City, which contains to entities of five counties.

Among the attractions figure equally the performance of the singers Kelvin Ochoa and Rosa María Ameneiro (Rochy), the first and two of February in the Square of the Workers, subjected at the present time to rebuilding, also in vigor in other areas of the town.

The list of companies to the celebration includes personalities like Herman Van Hoof, representative for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Organization of United Nations for the Education, the Science and the Culture (UNESCO).

In last July, the UNESCO granted the status of Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity to the part of bigger antiquity of the historical urban center of Camagüey, the most extensive in the country and with the category of National Monument.

Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe arose beside the northern bay of Nuevitas,it had it second establishment in the indigenous cacicazgo of Caonao, and in 1528 was transferred to her current location. (AIN).