CAMAGÜEY.- The squares are the space where the private and the public find a balance. If we travel to the birth of the city, we will find them as a heart. Around them the urban body began to organize itself. They are the memory of everything because there the inhabitant will always stop to breathe, to dissipate anxieties, to share joys and to entrust great projects.
Camagüey is a privileged city, so much so that we usually lament the lack of a systematic revival beyond the daily play of children, the gossip in the neighborhood at dusk and the arrival of night owls. In the midst of this mosaic of large and small, intimate and restless, this summer the largest one emerges with a new route to its virtues.
Summary: This summer, the Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz invites every Friday to a tour of its spaces full of stories. Tickets are on sale there during the week, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The price is 1.50 pesos for minors and 3 pesos for adults.
"The Plaza is an open place, it belongs to everyone," emphasizes an affable girl, the main specialist María de los Ángeles Rodríguez Manresa. From her leadership based on collective participation the idea was born. They named the route through the Plaza through the different areas: the grandstand of the monumental complex dedicated to the figure of Ignacio Agramonte, eponymous hero of Camagüey; the Fountain of the Latin American Flags, the Memorial, Jimaguayú and Nicolás Guillén rooms; and the seat of the Provincial Government.
With creativity from simplicity, with healthy pride for what they represent, the humble workers of the Plaza widen the renewed life after construction work and rehabilitation of the monumental complex. They mark as requirements the will and the full capacity of wonder.
The tour begins with the grandstand and ends with a photo requested by the institution's collective from the public as a souvenir of that group of interested visitors, without a doubt, for how they tell and rediscover the greatness of the space with the culture of its details.
A square is also a home, or the imagined beach of those who live inland; the ground where you learn to walk and leave your skin when insecurity is tamed like a beast on a bicycle. Right there, between moments of silence, bursts of love and thousands of echoes, we recover the feeling of infinity, we feel the pain of time lines and we breathe in the good vibes of freedom.
The specialist Mayra Montes de Oca invites you to live the experience of looking from the rostrum and explains details of the sculpture set placed to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Agramonte, on December 23, 1991.
n the Memorial room, he received a gallery of photos with political personalities and a work by the sculptor Roberto Estrada with the expression … what is good is loved and what is beautiful is adored…, by Ignacio Agramonte in a letter to his beloved Amalia Simoni, sent from San Diego, United States, in 1867.
The specialist Maura Pérez tells of the painful reason that led to founding the Jimaguayú salon. From the night of December 1, 2016 to the morning of the following day, the ashes of the Commander in Chief rested there on his way to Santiago de Cuba.
The specialist Iyolexis Jordán guides the visit to the Nicolás Guillén protocol room, where she shares an audio with the voice of the National Poet of Cuba and at another time that of the singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez with his song El Mayor.
The group of this institution attached to the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey contributes ingredients from their home to offer complimentary coffee and tea.
Art instructor Yudith Cruz and her colleague Elizabeth Victoria, both from the Joaquín de Agüero culture house, offer oral narratives. Another institution added is the Provincial Book and Literature Center with a sales point outside.
Among the first visitors was the women's artistic swimming team of the 11 and 12 year old category, which made the province stand out, as confirmed by their medals. with a renewed image, in which it celebrates its 24th anniversary of being founded. object of constructive and rehabilitation actions.
- Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez