A lady with 496 years

By: Aymee Amargós / Television Camagüey

The city of Camagüey, locks in its streets and properties the 496 year-old history and the peculiarities of being called by residents and visitors "The city of the earthenjars."

The village of Puerto Príncipe from its birth began to knit a history that is already 496 years old. To write today on my city with the charms and misfortunes, it is good to continue discovering it.

The certain thing is those that we live in it and those that remain far maintain that pride to be of Camagüey.

Arisen in 1514, Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, shows a mixture of modernism and tradition at the present time. An environment where the new constructions are interrelated with those historical attractiveness that offer personality to the city.

According to references, the village arose on February 2 beside the Bay of Nuevitas. Then it was moved inland and settled definitively among the rivers Tínima and Hatibonico.

Its capricious, labyrinthine streets are articulated in the historical center, declared Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.

The village was born of the mud. With mud the earthenjars that adorn houses were modeled , gardens, parks and contribute a distinction touch that remember the colonial time.

The squares are among its more significant places, the churches, the country casino and other places that show the magic of a city of legends.

The architectural goods that it stores have been conserved somehow by several generations. The urbanistics inheritances last, the history, the features that distinguish us and the worth of its people.

In perfect harmony are united charms and mysteries. For that reason maybe is difficult to understand to the district.