From one of the banks in the Plaza de Mars, between the goodness of the shade provided by one of the two pergolas and low tropical breeze, Melba cool the intense heat in September still plaguing people living in the city of Santiago de Cuba .
Very near the staircase that thousands of people go through every day, when they first come down from the truck, she revels in the constant ebb and flow of the tide of Santiago and Santiago de Cuba: the mother almost "fly" with the child in her arms to avoid being late to work, the hundreds of professional uniforms Electrical, ETECSA Company or the Bank, also young people who do own the streets with his brown dressing or pre-university yellow secondary.
Melba, from the comfort of their little haven, confirms what many have thought for some time: the Plaza de Mars, one of the most central, popular and crowded city of Santiago de Cuba locations.

Reasons that make the Plaza de Marte in key Historical Center

The first is that the Plaza de Mars, with his environment becomes one of the most important urban city environments. It depends on how you look, are born or die the most populous sections of central streets of the city: Shelters, Aguilera, Garzon and near the Avenue of the Liberators; and that means great vehicle traffic and influx of people.
In addition, this area, more than any other, has experienced in recent years an agitated constructive beat that has acquired significant attractions: the Casa del Vino, shop for the sale of musical instruments, the chocolate Fraternity, the Iris Club Jazz ... and most recently, it is one of the wireless zones that exist in the city.
Another reason already mentioned it: the thousands of people who access each day to the historic center of the city, coming, as if it were a great flood of water, just down the street Shelters, whose most populous and colorful part-and more now with the new pavimentación- begins in Plaza de Marte.
Its banks, gardens and floors have been exceptional witnesses to the social life of Santiago de Cuba. They said a few promises of the deepest love, revolutionary plans were laid during the years of the dictatorship of Batista, teenagers dressed and displayed their best clothes and faces, parents have seen their children grow and grandchildren, and many fierce fights star on the ball and the performance of the home team, Wasps ...
Santiago de Cuba, considered the capital of the country's history, is in the Plaza de Marte an important tribute to its past. There are three statues dedicated to the figures of Perucho Figueredo, author of the Cuban National Anthem, Major General Francisco Sánchez Hechavarría, first elected governor of the province of Oriente, and Brigadier General and distinguished surgeon and researcher, Dr. Joaquin Castillo Duany first Cuban North Pole explorer. We could not miss in a place like this tribute to Cuba's National Hero, José Martí, also of Captain Montes de Oca and the commander Camilo Cienfuegos.
Plaza de Mars, in the heart of Santiago and from Santiago
Comes the weekend and with it the daily tantrums Fabian, who would spend every night riding goats, ad nauseum, in the Plaza de Marte. Despite three years of age, he has learned to identify those night shifts of enjoyment in the morning when the mother does not carry it to the nursery.
When evening falls, especially on weekends, this public space of the city is transformed: hundreds of people waiting for the absence of the sun, go out and take this place. Then the talks will not wait, nor the dances always accompanied by a performance by a local youth groups or important as talent Turquino Septet, news of the day are discussed, the living statues with their almost impossible immobility also make their presentation.
And of course you can not forget the child row that expands and reaches every corner. Goats begin to make their endless journey, that you know by heart, small run, walk, they get among people with a big smile on their faces and parents behind, always tackling them ...
Interesting legends holds the Plaza de Mars since the eighteenth century, to be used to exercise the troops of the metropolis, then the so-called Campo de Marte referring to the god of war in Greek mythology. But today, witnessed the passage of thousands of people every day, provides blanket the need of a moment of freshness, privacy for that love, and protection for the child at play.
And above all, the Plaza de Mars welcomes curious passerby or usual, that you have to walk the historic center of the city, by any of its arteries.