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In the article published by the digital portal of Cadena Agramonte, General Cemetery of Camagüey, a centennial history, the specialist refers to what happens with the city: it is assimilating the evolutionary development of styles for ages.
He adds that even when a walk through a city is recommended and there is not much time, the cemetery is visited because it also gives the constructive image of the city, and Camaguey does not escape that.
The once Villa del Puerto del Príncipe, whose Historic Center, was declared by UNESCO in 2008, Cultural Heritage of Humanity, has one of its architectural pearls in the open-air museum according to García Yero herself.
‘The Cemetery grows three times in the nineteenth century itself, and of course in each of the extensions, the constructive taste of the time prevails: with the Neoclassical the pediments, columns and terraced pilasters and several levels in the constructions arrive.
‘In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, eclecticism leaves its mark, and hence the series of chapels that adorn the so-called Los Angeles Street; then, Art Deco begins to penetrate and becomes a very commercial style with a predominance of geometricity, and the use of granite, crucifix and the use of lamps. ‘
Visited by admirers of funerary art, the General Cemetery of Camagüey preserves on its walls the rich chronological journey of the town.
Illustrious children like Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, twice president of the Republic in Arms, in the 19th century, Amalia Simoni, wife of Ignacio Agramonte, a Camaguey independence leader in the wars against Spanish colonialism of the 19th century, rest on the grounds of the heritage site sacred.
In the last five years in the General Cemetery, investments are being made to expand and improve some of the necrological services of a city with more than 320,000 inhabitants, among the oldest in Cuba, founded in February 1514. (Taken from Prensa Latina)
