• The White Vulture, legend and reality

     The event surprised at its time and the story spread so much that almost immediately the legend took shape to the point that today it is difficult for many to distinguish where one began and the other ended. Perhaps, however, during these days at the beginning of the month of May, the fluttering of the "Aura Blanca" (white vulture) will raise the serene flight of the Creole vulture that for almost two centuries has remained among us as a heritage of all generations in the memory of Puerto Principe.

  • Art Plaza Circuit of creative industries ready to walk alone

    The Arte Plaza circuit as a creative industries project in the historic center of this city culminates its promotion stage with international financing and must grow from the self-management of entrepreneurs and local actors.

  • City Hall, invites visual dialogue

     The 34th City Hall was inaugurated, from the Alejo Carpentier Universal Art Gallery, under the question: How do I look... how do you look?, as a challenge for the public, and established and new artists, who participate in this occasion, ideal to celebrate the 510th anniversary of the town of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe from the different gallery spaces of this city.

  • Next Symposium will look at the historic urban landscape

    The 16th International Symposium on Challenges in the Administration and Management of Cities left firsts in its farewell, gratitude to the participants and the invitation to return in 2026 to focus on challenges and opportunities of the historic urban landscape.

  • How black!, the beauty of nature

    Her giant earrings stand out with simplicity in the midst of so much color. The smile dazzles, as does the emotion with which she talks about her project. In a world that has been unjust to a fault with black women; in a context in which she continues to say "bad hair" or "good hair", as if the behavior of hair could be measured; where almost all girls learn from early on that they have to straighten their hair and in a Cuba that tries to break with those old patterns, luckily Gemy Jiménez Álvarez was born. Irreverent, happy and willing to transform, she lives proud of ¡Qué Negra!

  • This Week of celebrations is now official (+Photos)

     Among the publicly assumed legacies of another era with a divergent regime and ideology in relation to the current political system, the Lectura del Bando (Reading of the Proclamation) in Camagüey reinforces as a tradition the practice of discourse from power.

  • City postcard

    We had not been able to see the city for days. A cloud of dust everywhere. Scaffolding and house painters. The noisy and hurried work of builders to finish the work, because even at home when we don't set a date for our goals, we leave things for later... and then we don't do anything.

  • A voice to embroider chimeras

     Yaíma Sáez will offer a concert with the Confluencias Duo, on February 3rd at the Teatro Principal, within the context of the Camagüey's Culture Week. She tells Adelante that she is about to present Twelve Jewels, her fourth album with songs by Roberto Valera.

  • For the physical and spiritual traces of the city

    For Culture Week, the Office of the Historian of Camagüey (OHCC) prepares an always peculiar program, related by its director José Rodríguez Barreras with the sense of an institution destined to "save the physical footprint of the city."

  • Week dedicated only to the city

    The Camagüey's Culture Week will have a single dedication. This is the city built over time, with the starting point being the founding of the Villa de Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe on February 2nd, 1514.

  • Camagüey: being a city is not granted by the title

    He is King Ferdinand the 7th painted by Goya three years before he signed the paper to grant the title of city to the most Mediterranean town in Cuba.

  • The city has its song

    The song Vamo' a ver, by the authors Dawlyn Wiliam Aldana Boudet and Rubén Aldana Lorenzo, was the winner of the contest organized by the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey (OHCC) and the Provincial Center of Music and Entertainment to select the identifying theme of the campaign for the 510th anniversary of the former town of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, current Camagüey.

  • Summer with love to the city

    The pride that defines a city with more than five centuries of history is a constant in the efforts of the Office of the Historian of the city of Camagüey (OHCC). Its summer programming has combined the recreation typical of the summer season with learning and promoting heritage values.