Granma: At the initiative of the Granma province and as part of the XX Fiesta de la Cubanía, at 8:00 this morning in all work centers the National Anthem was sung, 152 years after the popular premiere of its lyrics in Bayamo, Radio Reloj publishes.
That event is evoked today in the National Anthem Square, where it took place on October 20, 1868 when the Mambisa forces led by Céspedes entered Bayamo, the first Cuban city liberated from Spanish colonialism.
The reissue includes the interpretation of the National Anthem by the Municipal Concert Band, the songs La Bayamesa from Céspedes, Fornaris and del Castillo, and Mujer bayamesa, written by Sindo Garay.
Fernando Muñoz, director of the remembrance, highlighted the great significance of this anniversary at a time when Cuba contains the Covid-19 pandemic and faces the empire’s media campaigns.
Flag Ceremony in Bayamo
The Day of the Cuban Culture, instituted on October 20, is commemorated this Tuesday with the ceremony of raising the Cuban flag and that of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in the Revolution Square in Bayamo.
In that historic place, the poet Luis Carlos Suárez, makes a special intervention on Celia Sánchez, to whom together with Alicia Alonso, is dedicated the XXVI Fiesta de la Cubanía, which ends today.
Also as part of that revelry, the polychrome wax figure of the troubadour Miguel Matamoros is unveiled at the Bayamo Wax Museum, which includes 24 figures of personalities of Cuban culture and patriots such as Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and José Martí.
The sculptors Rafael Barrios and his sons Lander and Rafael, made the 1 meter and 70 centimeters sculpture of Matamoros that appears standing up and carrying his guitar.