The religious repertoire of Camaguey: An architectonic treasure
Some chroniclers define than their numerous plazas, next to narrow streets, the system of plazas that preside at her and the alleys and neighborhoods that surround them, constitute a complement sui géneris of the inhabit of the aged metropolis with similarity to tracings of cities Christian Muslim andaluza.
The configuration of her formerly Villa of Santa María of the Port of the Prince, founded in the beginnings of the XVIth Century, was determined, to a large extent for the religious organization, main authority of the epoch. This fixed the urban structure to neighborhoods or parishes.
What did that sorting make room to? To that the first suburbs took the name of the corresponding church. So that the neighborhood of Charity, for instance, assume that name to preside at the surroundings the temple Our Lady of The Charity of Copper.
The ones that go over their streets notice that in the main nucleus of the metropolis the plazas last and in their pupils crowd the religious buildings that gave the city origin.
They are: The one of the contiguous Plaza Mayor to the Parque Agramonte, which on the eve of the 500 years of founded, the Pope name to the Cathedral of Camaguey like Younger Basílica. Mercy (Plaza of The Workers) and Saint Francis (in the Park Marti). The two firsts tuteladas for the Parochial Mayor, once 1517 and the Lady of the Mercy in 1748.g was initiated into
Majestic gets up in the Plaza of the Workers the convent church Mercy. After transmuting between 1744-1756 he stands straight like one of the religious buildings more notable for the constructive complexity and architectonic beauty. There is no tourist that wears this metropolis that does not catch her in your photographic lens.
What is this Ermita like? Totally of bricks and count on roofs of barrel vaults, that they cover the three ships supported by thick nerves. Out-of-doors, he straightens up, a voluminous tower, placed to axis of the main ship that dials the firmness of the building: In the meantime pilasters and pelota courts frames the façade.
On the religious repertoire camagüeyano had to dedicate much longer to exalt your values that, unquestionably, they favored to that the UNESCO declared a segment of the Historic Center like Cultural Heritage of humanity.
The national and foreign tourists that move around toward the Orient of the country do not lose opportunity to go up to Camaguey to appreciate, firsthand, the architectonic treasures of a city that rejuvenates in step with time.
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