CAMAGÜEY. -It happened a few days ago, but the joy grows by the Prize Excellencies 2018 conferred to the Railway Museum of Camagüey, a project of cultural revival that undertakes the Office of the Historian of this city.

The recovery of historical buildings, the change of the urban image, the creation of new services, and the preservation of the documentary and industrial railway heritage were arguments of weight for that failure among the 33 winners.

Photo: Taken from Premios.excelenciasPhoto: Taken from Premios.excelenciasJosé Luis Barreras, director of the office received the award from the hands of José Carlos de Santiago, president of the Excellences Group and its director España Verónica de Santiago Gómez.

In December 2018, it opened the Camagüey Railway Archive, as part of this multi-functional project that has involved different objects of work and includes intervention in housing, passenger stations and the conversion of buildings.

The shop of the imprint El Lugareño, the sale of handicrafts of the Cuban Fund of Cultural Assets and a center of watches restoration work already for the public.

At the end of the summer of last year, it also opened the first boulevard of the city, before the old station and to the side of the Hotel Plaza, envisaged with category of four stars, although it already offers services in the bar and the shop, adjoining with the cafeteria the station , managed by the City Tourism Company Santa María.

The 2018 Excellences Awards were dedicated in a special way to Havana as a salute to the 500 years that will be fulfilled in 2019, and in category issues were incorporated Green and Blue awards, as a recognition of environmental protection and sustainable development.

For the second consecutive year this province wins this award, since the Excellencies 2017 relapsed in Hoteles E Camagüey, of the hotel group Cubanacán S.A., due to the link with the architectural environment in an area of the city declared by the UNESCO Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The Excellences Awards arose in 2005 on the initiative of the communication group "Grupo Excellencies", in order to stimulate the high values associated to quality services in different fields, related to tourism and culture.

 Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez