Camagüey in its new San Juan's preamble

The congas already announces, with their street rehearsals, the San Juan's proximity (carnival) that with its more than two centuries of existence will return to this city from next Thursday.

The project of the new edition of one of the most picturesque carnivalesque appointments in the Island includes 61 artistic groupings and soloists, five congas walks, processions, coaches, disguises and other attractions, according to data offered to the press by the organizing commission.

Those parades will be the 25, 26 and 28 for central roads, and in the allotments Lenin, Previsora and Julio Antonio Mella the 27, day in the one which, also, children and adolescents will play the journey in the Avenue of the Freedom.

The inaugural day will insert “sanjuaneras” traditions, as the preparation and ajiaco consumption in the blocks, during activities favored by the Committees of Defense of the Revolution.

The program will have its official closing the 29 with another of the emblems of the parties, the one denominated Funeral of San Pedro, in the Square of the Freedom, after the itinerary of a gigantic conga with which the people of Camagüey says goodbye to its summer revel.

Effective from the XVIII century, the San Juan of Camagüey had its origin in the crossroad of celebrations coming from Europe and fairs of livestock sale in the then Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe.

That century is considered that of the full development of the village, today Camagüey whose older sector of its last establishment possesses the status of Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity. (Adolfo Silva Silva)