The typical Miguel Failde Orchestra and the Matanzas Chamber Choir will perform during the artistic gala in which cultural personalities, government officials and local politicians and residents will celebrate the 157th anniversary of the proclamation of Matanzas as Athens of Cuba.
The concert hall José White, formerly Artistic and Literary Lyceum, will be the stage for the celebration on the 17th, precisely the date on which, in 1863, Rafael del Villar gave the nickname to the also known as City of Bridges.
The event will be presented for the first time the La Tórtola Distinction, to personalities with significant contributions to the values of Matanzas culture, from the visual arts, theater, dance; Musicians, heritage specialists, the book sector and the House of Culture system, researchers and historians, specified the Provincial Directorate of Culture in the province.
The economic and cultural boom of Matanzas, given the work of so many local artists and their role as the driving force for the development of the country in various spheres, motivated the adoption of the pseudonym that until today accompanies this city.
Protagonist of the opening of Cuba to the world and its modernization, the establishment of important financial, social and cultural bonds with other countries, its innovations favored the advance of the sugar industry and the economic development, transformed the intellectuality and gave prosperity to the Cuban West.
Land of traditions, where the drums played the first guaguancó and Miguel Failde composed the first danzon: The heights of Simpson. Engraved with the work of José Jacinto Milanés, Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, Bonifacio Byrne, José White and Carilda Oliver.
On April 6, 1863, the Teatro Esteban was inaugurated, which, 36 years later, was renamed Sauto and is currently immersed in the greatest repair of its history. Declared National Monument on October 10th, 1978, the architectural jewel retains in more than 90 percent the characteristics that Daniel Dall’Aglio printed to its design.
This city is adorned by its bridges, delimited by its rivers and crowned with natural beauties unique in the world such as the Yumurí Valley, the Caves of Bellamar, a bay of bag, which besides being the deepest of Cuba, is one of the Most beautiful of the continent.
This is the Athens of Cuba, which, 157 years after that February 17th, continues to defend its crown as the symbol of culture that is, as the cusp of a beauty that many still do not know.
Original text by on Feb 10th, 2017
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