Camagüey prepares international encounter of Cities Patrimony of the Humanity

By:Eduardo Labrada Rodríguez

Hardly concluded the V Encounter of Regional History and Local sponsored by the Office of the Historian of The City of Camagüey, are ahead the programs with international attendance of the IV Symposium Challenge in the Handling and the Administration of the Cities, to make in February of next year in opportunity of the the Week of the Culture in Camagüey.

In this opportunity a pre event has been designed that in shop form, for the days 29 and 30 of January, will add the intervention of experts of Cuba, Mexico, Spain and Argentina, who will debate the handling plan and administration applied in the Historical Center of Camagüey with new ideas and experiences that allow to improve the care of this project.

There will be present Spanish specialists of the city of Toledo , belonging to the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, beside the river Tajo; Alcalá of Henares, city of the Castilian center, lifted in the riverbanks of the river Henares in the oriental sector of the community of Madrid and Buenos Aires, capital and the most populous city in Argentina, extended in the western riverbank of the River of the Silver. Cuba will be represented by the Humanity of City cities Patrimony Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad and Camagüey.

This important encounter, first for its characteristics in the country and sponsored by the local Government and the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey, as well as for the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation, it is coordinated by the Dra. Lourdes Gómez Consuegra, of the Center of Studies of the Construction and the Master Teresa Pascual Wong, directress of the Plan Teacher of the OHCC.

Colateral to the IV Symposium will be carried out an exhibition in the park Agramonte on topics of urban development in our city and of the Humanity's remaining cities Cuban declared Cultural Patrimony.

While the IV Encounter of Regional and Local History now concluded, not alone left the it magnifies experience of its more than fifty works of investigations presented on topics related with the sociocultural inheritance, archaeology, built patrimony, religion and society, among other, but rather one of the most active years in the OHCC closed, because in the period the important event is framed registered in our annals; the official declaration, in February of this 2009, of the city of Camagüey like Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, end and principle of a long process of historical investigations that it must cease.