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Cuba Day 3 - Camaguey Colonial (City).
Camagüey.
Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. After almost continuous attacks from pirates the original city (founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe around 1515 on the northern coast) was moved inland in 1528. The new city was built with a confusing lay-out of winding alleys that made it easier to defend it from any raiders. There are many blind alleys and forked streets that lead to squares of different sizes. There is only one exit from the city; should pirates ever return and succeed in entering the city, the hope was that the local inhabitants would be able to entrap and kill them.
In July 2008, the old town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Source.
Price - 46(adult), 26(child) in CUBA peso. Hours - 8.00am to 5.30pm.
5th stop - Parque Ignacio Agramonte Park (Camaguey City).
According to the tour guide this is the new shopping plaza in this city. So, kira fancy lah gitu.
It's time for us to be independent. It's funny when the tour guide left, everybody just stand there don't now what/where to go till we start working hehe.
We end up buying this.
See how happy AB was.
American Classic Car in CUBA.
Busy street.
Colorful buildings in Camaguey City.
Three-seater bike transportation.
This is the place we waiting for the tour guide after looking/shopping around down town.
The Friendly Local.
The Parque Ignacio Agramonte is the central square in Camaguey. To him are many important buildings like the Palacio Collade, the Cathedral, the Biblioteca Julio Antonio Mella and the Casa de la Trova Patricio Ballagas. The Parque Ignacio Agramonte is the former Plaza de Armas. In the center of the square stands an equestrian statue of Cuban independence fighter Agramonte. It dates from 1912 and comes from the Italian artist Salvatore Boemi. It was inaugurated by Agramonte wife Amalia Simoni. At the four corners of the square, large palm trees. They commemorate a group of nationalists, who in this place on 24 February 1851 were executed. As the Spaniards prohibited monuments to the Nationalists, were in Cuba Königsplamen often planted as a symbolic monuments to the heroes of the independence wars. Source.
The great cathedral of Camagüey is the patron saint of the doomed city. Designed and built by Manuel Saldana, she was at the beginning of the 18th Century. 1777 she got a bell tower, however, collapsed after just one month back. The Catedral de Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria was repeatedly rebuilt and renovated. The present structure dates from 1864. The cathedral has a monumental facade. This is topped by a pediment. On the six-story tower topped by a large statue of Christ. Source.
Interesting.
Now you know the history of the Parque Ignacio Agramonte Park.
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Comments
one day i should go there
CathJ - Ya, sudah lah panas tiada angin lagi tu ampunnnn.