This afternoon "bury" to San Pedro in Camagüey

Camagüey. Today in the afternoon will be the official closing of the San Juan's traditional parties 2010, with the one denominated “bury of San Pedro”, a tragicomic show with which the people of Camagüey says goodbye to the party that anyway continues until the night, when in each area the drink finishes and turn off the musical horns.

June 29 constitute one of the most important dates in the parties, during the journey those “weepers”, accompanied by men, many with bottles of rum in hand, carry out cries faked by San Pedro's death that is represented with a puppet made with old clothes, stuff of dry grass and cloths, which can be taken in a casket or mounted in a wheelbarrow, to finish burnt.

This way, in the Square of the Freedom will be the traditional one " bury”, after the itinerary of a gigantic conga with the one that the people of Camagüey says goodbye to its summer revel.

This representation that also, is carried out in other towns of Cuba, for the people of Camagüey is indissoluble part of the folkloric local San Juan.
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. (Jorge Luis Peix Agüero)