Camagüey, February 1.—A simultaneous of chess with 495 boards today was made in the inaugural session of the Week of the Culture by the 495 anniversary of this city.
The fair was welcomed in the Square of the Workers, where there are lifted properties in the course of three centuries, and it is one of the main places of the area declared Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.
The morning segment included, also, an infantile festival of disguises, and a fair in which artisans will elaborate openly, until on Tuesday, works like sizes in wood, ceramic pieces and metallic ornaments.
Last night was carried out the reading of the decree ( normative document ) of the celebration of the date from the balconies of the old city council, the municipal government's current headquarters, and Cuban building with more time dedicated to governmental functions, existed from the XVIII century.
The program of this Sunday will conclude in the Revolution Square bigger General Ignacio Agramonte, with an artistic elegance based on musical expressions, dance and declamatories.
Tomorrow Monday night, the oldest sector in the definitive establishment of Camagüey will be proclaimed in official way Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.
That solemn ceremony will sesion in the today Park Agramonte, old Square of Weapons, fundational area of the last of the three locations of the Villa of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, at the moment Camagüey.
lunes, 2 de febrero de 2009
Preserve in Camagüey the universal and exceptional values of its historical center
By: Yolanda Ferrera Sosa/Radio Chain Agramonte
Hands and hearts of the current people from Camagüey, are deposited loving in a made that honors it:: to preserve the universal and exceptional values of the oldest center in a district that makes of it antiquity a cult to the useful and perishable: Camagüey.
Already near to it 495 years - it will arrive on February 2 -it receives with satisfaction the indispensable retouch that suggest the date and the salutation day foreseen for the first week of that month, well denominated of the Culture.
The historical center of the town of Camagüey, is main character - for own right - of the patrimonial wealth of the formerly village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, declared National Monument November 10, 1980.
For many years, the legacy of almost half millennium of its foundation, kept zealously, is preserved by means of a wide selection of actions, contained in the Plan Teacher and of Handling, with restoring projects, remodelators and of integral recovery in the places where the logical step of the time has left its prints.
The aspiration of incorporating to a plethoric segment of so much patrimonial content, in the listing of the UNESCO, like Center Historical Urban Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, is a reality.
This concentrates on the oldest urban nucleus that includes the places from which the amplification of the village was irradiated. They are 54 hectares, that is to say, 16 percent of the total of the historical center. There eight thousand 180 citizens reside in two thousand 843 properties. They are 13 little squares, seven squares and six churches.
This beautiful pierce is known as city of the XVIII century. It not only store public and religious buildings, or the vetustas large houses, but also an individual and collective way to be and of being projected sui géneris in the national context. They are the elements that grant to the district that sense of identity and of specific authenticity of the worthy excepcionality of it condition like Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.
The enumeration of its physical attributes goes by the irregularity of the streets, generating of a wide system of squares and of little squares, only of its type in Cuba and in the Continent; the abundance and quality of the religious buildings; the harmony and integration among their diverse architectural styles; the proliferation of the mud like material used in the elaboration of bricks, tiles, floors, earthenjars and works of art; the vegetation in the beautiful yards of homes and urban spaces… and - also - the love for the traditions that feed a full past of legends, festivities, personalities, facts, events… ways of taking the existence of those who live proud of their ancestors, of the forge achieved during almost half millennium and definitory of the imaginary of the city.
That`s why the hearts and hands villagers incorporate to the mission of preparing it appropriately, so that it welcomes its 495 years not only decked out with shave physical but also with the fondness of today's people from Camagüey that continue making history.
Hands and hearts of the current people from Camagüey, are deposited loving in a made that honors it:: to preserve the universal and exceptional values of the oldest center in a district that makes of it antiquity a cult to the useful and perishable: Camagüey.
Already near to it 495 years - it will arrive on February 2 -it receives with satisfaction the indispensable retouch that suggest the date and the salutation day foreseen for the first week of that month, well denominated of the Culture.
The historical center of the town of Camagüey, is main character - for own right - of the patrimonial wealth of the formerly village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, declared National Monument November 10, 1980.
For many years, the legacy of almost half millennium of its foundation, kept zealously, is preserved by means of a wide selection of actions, contained in the Plan Teacher and of Handling, with restoring projects, remodelators and of integral recovery in the places where the logical step of the time has left its prints.
The aspiration of incorporating to a plethoric segment of so much patrimonial content, in the listing of the UNESCO, like Center Historical Urban Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, is a reality.
This concentrates on the oldest urban nucleus that includes the places from which the amplification of the village was irradiated. They are 54 hectares, that is to say, 16 percent of the total of the historical center. There eight thousand 180 citizens reside in two thousand 843 properties. They are 13 little squares, seven squares and six churches.
This beautiful pierce is known as city of the XVIII century. It not only store public and religious buildings, or the vetustas large houses, but also an individual and collective way to be and of being projected sui géneris in the national context. They are the elements that grant to the district that sense of identity and of specific authenticity of the worthy excepcionality of it condition like Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.
The enumeration of its physical attributes goes by the irregularity of the streets, generating of a wide system of squares and of little squares, only of its type in Cuba and in the Continent; the abundance and quality of the religious buildings; the harmony and integration among their diverse architectural styles; the proliferation of the mud like material used in the elaboration of bricks, tiles, floors, earthenjars and works of art; the vegetation in the beautiful yards of homes and urban spaces… and - also - the love for the traditions that feed a full past of legends, festivities, personalities, facts, events… ways of taking the existence of those who live proud of their ancestors, of the forge achieved during almost half millennium and definitory of the imaginary of the city.
That`s why the hearts and hands villagers incorporate to the mission of preparing it appropriately, so that it welcomes its 495 years not only decked out with shave physical but also with the fondness of today's people from Camagüey that continue making history.
Camagüey: Reward to the past, challenge to the present and the future
Special connotation acquires for the people of Camagüey this February 2, day of celebrations that we dedicate to one of the first seven villages that the Spaniards were founded in the island; favorable moment to meditate about the commitment and the civic responsibility before our past, present and future.Beyond the exact historical fact, concerning the birth of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, the really transcendent thing in these almost five centuries of existence, it is the contribution of each generation to the Cuban nationality, in terms of history and culture.
It was recognized in this way recently by the Organization of the United Nations for the Education, the Science and the Culture, UNESCO that granted to the oldest segment in the City the condition of Area Patrimony of the Humanity, category that, in an official way, we receive with the current one onomastic.
To deserve it constitutes fair recognition to all those that come prosecuting part of the efforts of the territory toward the renovation of the work bequeathed for who preceded us.
Highlight special in this zeal for the specialists of the Historian's Office who have rescued the most autochthonous in the town, preserving a patrimonial group that transcends as only in multiple senses.
And it is that the evolution, development and consolidation of a very particular cultural process in the Camagüey, are alive in the idiosyncrasy of their inhabitants and in the enrichment of their environment.
The historical memory with which we cohabit implies a challenge for who we reside in this portion of the Cuban geography then. To assume it, means to become beings aware of the values of the place that we inhabit.
The convocation overflows commemorative dates, and it demands from each local resident a coherent behavior with the space that frames it, essential component of a citadine culture even insufficient .
What we were and what we are in 495 years is already written. It is to consist, that what from now on are able to make, this lasting chain that the impermanence of the same existence transcends continuing.
Who today we store that legacy, we are called to preserve the essences of this city that it grows for yes, and for the Humanity.
Happy Anniversary, Camagüey!
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