Our Region

The white aura:

Legend camagüeyana immortalized by The Hazel Grove: He was enjoying the Franciscan priest Joseph of the Cruz Espí (1763 - 1838), the Father Valencia, of the affection of the town principeño: He offered services, he mediated in quarrels and he advised. One day he decided to construct a lazaretto and he achieved it. The hospital was the pride of the city. But am here that he died, and arrived scarcity and the hunger for the lepers.

The giant doll: He gets himself a tradition in Camaguey, for the festivities of the week of the Cultura Camagüeyana the presentation of the Giant Doll. The children of this city received the Proyecto Carsueños's special gift, a giant rag doll, María Parchito, delivered as part of the program of the Week of Culture, that celebrates the foundation, of her formerly Villa of Santa María of the Port of the Prince.

San Juan camagüeyano: It came fortuitously from in a month tercentennial June back. Your beginnings place in the stage in a process characterized by a great cost-reducing power in the district of Port-Au-Prince themselves, attained prosperity for the fabulous sales of cattle that were coming true in the Village.

Epitaph Dolores Rondon: To few meters of the entrance of the Cemetery of the Santo Cristo of the Pleasant Journey, of the city of Camaguey, he finds a supposed grave in which they appear enrolled some rhymes like epitaph, than according to local historians, they appeared there in 1833. Immediately, and to our days, curiosity began to tell history, denial for recent investigations, but than a time converted legend, he is a part of traditions, of the patrimony camagüeyano. They say that Dolores Rondón was a Catalan, owner of a mixed store's daughter, and a native mulatto.