The automobile industry needed a road infrastructure; one of the first works started on May 20th, 1927 was the construction of the Central Highway, which was completed on February 24th,

El Derecho was a four-page gazette-sized newspaper that, in the context of the journalistic system of Camagüey, distinguished itself for its essentially political purpose, and within that code it aimed

Total consternation was the halo that crowned the night of February 28th, 1914 before the departure of one of the most representative figures of Cuban and Latin American democratic thought:

Rather, there was an official rapprochement between Martí and Cisneros, not at all cordially affectionate, however this did not prevent the Master from having in his project of restarting the

The chosen date of February 24th for the inauguration of the sculptural monument was a wise choice. El Grito de Yara and el Grito de Baire merged. The bronze image

Francisco Agüero y Estrada was born in 1806, into one of the oldest families in Puerto Príncipe. From very early his talents as a writer were visible, becoming a broad

The historiographical tradition of Camagüey dates back to the first scribes who, since the 16th century, were sending chronicles and other matters to the Crown, —more or less true—, of

The Ursuline Monastery, a building built in 1829, is one of the monumental pieces not only in Camagüey, but also in the history of Cuban architecture. That is why its

Manuel Ramón Silva Zayas, was a multifaceted, cultured man. Among his multiple gifts (doctor, patriot, constituent, pedagogue, speaker, ruler, politician) is his journalistic work, which can be divided into two

The popular conga known as La Chambelona, also called the Liberal Anthem, was introduced by the followers of the Liberal Party in the 1916 political campaign led by José Miguel

On February 10th, 1828, Salvador Escolástico Cisneros Betancourt was born. Only male child. He has lost his mother since he was two years old. In 1841 he is sent to

Fernando María Figueredo Socarrás was born in Puerto Príncipe, Camagüey, on February 9th, 1846. He was educated in Bayamo and it is in this city that he rises up in

In Camagüey in the second half of the 20th century, the José Martí Provincial School of Plastic Arts was founded. An institution that developed between contradictions and misunderstandings, but also

Gustavo Adolfo Sed Nieves enjoyed the happiness of having, —as Don Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros, El Lugareño, refers to him— “a friend, Doña Camagüey; and a beloved one, Camagüey; and a

Francisco Sánchez Betancourt was born on January 31st, 1827 in Puerto Príncipe. He married Concepción Agramante Boza on June 12th, 1852, with whom he had ten children: four girls and

Manuel de Quesada Loynaz was born in Puerto Príncipe on March 29th, 1833. He was a member of the secret independence organization Libertarian Society of Puerto Príncipe. His decision to

On the morning of January 29th, 1812 at 6:00 in the morning in the Plaza de Armas, today Agramonte Park, the eight leaders of the Aponte rebellion in Camagüey were

The student movement in Camagüey, under the direction of its undisputed leader, Jesús Suárez Gayol, in the fight against Batista, he undertook various actions such as strikes, sabotage, demonstrations. Don’t

The last days of January are witnesses of the birth of one of the most relevant men of Camagüey in terms of culture and, at the same time, one of

José Martí had the patriots from Camagüey who had entered the Ten Years’ War under the command of El Mayor Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz. With the “threads of the conspiracy” in

On January 27th, 1842, Aurelia Castillo, a writer, poet, journalist, but above all a woman that undeniably worked in favor of Cuban feminism, was born in Camagüey. As a writer,

Revolutionaries can never trust the enemy. In Camagüey, a handful of revolutionaries had taken a step forward, in November 1868, to support the insurrection that broke out in the West

In colonial Cuba, the situation of women, doubly oppressed by men and the prevailing social regime, was generating a more or less open capacity to challenge the established order and

The LIS Magazine was created in a familiar context during the first years of the second decade of the twentieth century for an educated, knowledgeable and above all intelligent people

On January 9th, 1915, Gonzalo de Quesada Aróstegui, the son of Camagüey parents, died in the city of Berlin. His remains remained there until August 29th, 1919. This Cuban patriot

Also known as Manuel Antonio de Varona Miranda, he was born in Sibanicú, Camagüey on January 1st, 1856. The cry of La Demajagua on October 10th, 1868 began the Ten

Five centuries seem enough to consolidate stories, customs and traditions in the imagination of a certain human community, however, contexts, dates and other events related to the first stage of

The Municipal Ordinances of Puerto Príncipe, Cuba, came into force on January 1st, 1857. They were registered in 1856 by El Fanal printing company, under the observance of the Government

Under the pseudonym of La Peregrina, she is known as one of the most important writers of Puerto Príncipe, a representative of the Cuban romantic movement and a forerunner of

Among the historical sites that, due to their values, hold the category of National Monument in Camagüey province, Jimaguayú pastureland stands out, where Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz fell in combat and

It was the people from Puerto Principe who built their own Agramontino myth. At a certain very singular juncture, the collective imagination, making use of its personal contours, turned it

San Juan de Dios square has become an accomplice on several occasions of a date of great importance for the history of Camagüey and Cuba in general, the birth of

This characteristic seemed underlying in the first of the designs made by three Creole intellectuals of this town petitioners of regional coat, a sketch that once received by the chronicler

The antecedents of liberating educational practices in Camagüey in the context of the nation are long-standing. Joaquín de Agüero y Agüero (1816-1851) stands out who in 1842 founded a free

On December 22nd, 1910, one of the great women who exalted the history of our country, Ana de Quesada y de Loynaz, passed away. She was born into one of

During the 19th century, the Nuevitas-Puerto Príncipe railway company was insufficient in the Camagüey region. Faced with such circumstances, new railway projects were needed, one of them would come to

One of the original spaces of the colonial Puerto Príncipe that has enjoyed the privilege of history is the Ermita Square and the Convent of San Francisco de Asís. It

When Major General Antonio Maceo y Grajales was waging a successful campaign in the easternmost part of Cuba, despite the 81,000 troops that Valeriano Weyler had concentrated to kill him,

The woman within the Cuban independence process occupies a very important place, because within her right context, where the female condition limited her actions, she also knew how to give

The year 1898 is intense in mixed events. On February 15th, the US ship the Maine exploded, a matter that promoted authorization and powers to adopt measures to allow “the

The delivery of the flag by Salvador Cisneros Betancourt to Antonio Maceo, not only meant the official dismissal and separation of the government from the mambí army, which since November

The history of the Camagüey press saw the birth towards the last months of 1866 of its first literary newspaper, El Céfiro. This publication has a particularity: its director Domitila

A reading without reflection of what happened in that meeting of patriots at the railway station in Camaguey, on November 26th, 1868, obscures the political and military significance it had

The old Pueyo Avenue begins its journey with an obelisk as a tribute to the Mambises who shed their generous blood for the Independence of Cuba. Beautiful and necessary gesture,

Among the great personalities of Cuban history, Enrique José Varona stands out as one of the most influential intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born

On November 7th, 1908, the poet and essayist Emilio Ballagas Cubeñas was born in Camagüey, a man who occupies a well-deserved space in the history of Cuban and Latin American

Fernando Espinosa Socarrás together with Brigadier General Ángel del Castillo, in 1869 he marched towards the jurisdiction of Sancti Spíritus, and in 1871 he returned to Camagüey. Under the orders

Undoubtedly, one of the events of great connotation that the Cuban historiography of the wars for the independence of Cuba always addresses from different approaches, is the entry of Camagüey

Of the 24 delegates to the Constituent Assembly, only Salvador Cisneros Betancourt had participated in the Constitution of Jimaguayú. The delegates of the various army corps were mostly professionals, lawyers

Self-recognition through our national symbols is the manifestation of an identity assumed, felt and defended under the name of nation. That is why, on such an important date, the National