Cuban News Agency

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“It implies –he added- convincing people of the importance of this job,
combining intelligence and work, and create a culture of the revival of
the historical city.” 

Leal’s address opened the program for the Culture Week marking this year
the 498th anniversary of the Santa Maria del Puerto del Principe town,
Camaguey’s founding name.

Havana’s Historian Leal lauded the results of the restoration process in
the province's capital city whose oldest section was declared a World
Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2008. 

He extolled the work carried out by the local Historian Office mentioning
in particular the face-lift on the main commercial streets of the city and
the two squares that connects them.

The event was attended by the first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party
in the province Julio Cesar Garcia, and the president of the local
government Luis Ynchausti, along with restoration specialists from Havana,
Trinidad, Santiago de Cuba, Cienfuegos, and the host city. There were also
experts from Spain.

The symposium concluding on Thursday includes, among other activities, 10
presentations about different topics, one of them related to the opening
of private businesses in areas of patrimonial value.

Santa Maria del Puerto del Principe was founded by the bay of Nuevitas on
February 2, 1514.  Seeking to avoid piracy attacks, settlers moved the
town inland until reaching its current location, in 1528, in the area
between the Hatibonico and Tinima rivers.