Coffee City for testing the tradition

By:Yanetsy León González

With the sign of Coffee City a property of the XIX century reopened its doors in Camagüey, to continue preserving traditions of the most authentic thing of the Cuban popular culture, in a central corner of the Humanity's area proclaimed Cultural Patrimony.

Set with gigantographies taken for around a century, the installation will prepare 8 varieties of coffee at the moment, although has 103 recipes, besides the additional offer.

The rite of the brown mambí at 6:00 o'clock p.m. will be the biggest attractiveness in the house to consist on a public preparation, with the method to the usage of the rural areas. The grains brought from the oriental region of the country, are crushed in the pylon, are blended with boiled water and honey, filtered by the strainer, it is the clever infusion to take in pitcher of enameled aluminum and to test with pieces of cheese.

Coffee City is open every day from 10:00 o'clock a.m. to 10:00 o'clock p.m.

The wooden instrument that will be used in the Brown City, well-known as pylon, composed by a base of the mango tree and the hand of pepper, it was donated by the Office of the Conservative of the City of Santiago from Cuba like sample of their brotherhood with its homologous of Camagüey, the architect indicated Yadira Pérez, specialist.

The revenues of the Brown City, collected by the Comercializer Company Santa María, like part of the system of self-financings of the OHCC, will be employees in the architectural projects of the city, fundamentally in the Humanity's 54 hectares proclaimed Cultural Patrimony, the manager José Argudín assured.

The XIX century it transcended as the “century of the coffee” and historically has by excellence been the East of Cuba the region producer of that matter prevails of the popular black nectar.

About the remodeling the work boss, Julio Cesar González Quiala, shared his satisfaction for the result after 7 months of work that had the biggest accidents in the restitution on behalf of the roof, the change of the roof and the discovery of the flagstones of mud of the floor.

This instrument wooden called pylon is used in the rural areas of the East of Cuba it leaves to crush the grains of coffee

Located in one of the lateral of the Park Agramonte, last Square bigger than the current city and next to the old City council, the property belonged to personalities with social hierarchy in Puerto Príncipe and in the XX century it was leased with lodging function with the name of Hotel England that welcomed commercial establishments, of coffee, tavern, tobaccos, and other trinkets.