The Cuban Vintage City

Touring the first town founded in Cuba, visualizes abstractly yesteryear, when the Spanish conqueror Diego Velázquez on August 15, 1511 established Our Lady of the Assumption of Baracoa, a picturesque city that boosts its image despite the old the fortifications, streets, Public buildings and houses between the Caribbean Sea and green-crown-mountains.

Our gaze pauses on the colonial architecture between houses and buildings built in the last century stalked by the years and the inclemency of natural  phenomena, but the people of Baracoa insist on returning to build their dwellings that treasure life stories and the courage of Aborigine people like Hatuey and Guamá, the Catalan, French and Haitian emigrants, the Colonels of the War of Independence: Ruenes, Galano, among other heroes and martyrs of the neocolonial stage who took root in this Landscape City.

To visit the Cuban First City from August 10 to 15, in addition to the urban scene, you will find a culinary culture, the rhythm kiribá-nengón and trova, festival of the rafters of the Toa River, among other attractions programmed during the Fiesta de las Aguas, which celebrates the 507 years of culture, struggles and unique traditions of the town.

The Nautical Center of the Turey, the Casa de la Trova, the well-known Malecón will host, in that order, the Opening Gala of the Water Festival, the Agroindustrial Fair, the gathering “La trova te llama”, the Baracoa Night during these days of popular joy that includes the Mass for Our Lady of the Assumption Baracoa in the Minor Basilica, the Solemn Assembly in the Plaza de Armas and the 507th Anniversary Dinner in different places and neighborhoods, an activity that closes the festivities of the vintage-village that attracts visitors from Cuba and the whole world.