Walks St. James on his white steed, and holy roams Santiago de Cuba become creole; Garzon moves over the Plaza de Mars, the Céspedes Park, and riding up the steps of Padre Pico, because there is no obstacle in his way. And from the top of Tivolí Bay greets this beloved city.
It is happy to meet up half a millennium so brilliantly silver sword snake, symbolizing the ardent love of this land ... and so hard has been transmitted for centuries to Santiago.
Perhaps poetry is the lamp which Jesus Cos Causse lights up the world from his throne there, is the best foundation stories to tell. But if missing, then it is only to say that in the summer of 1515 the Spanish colonialists created the seventh town in the archipelago and declared the first Mayor Hernán Cortés, under the gaze of Governor and to the disbelief of those Aboriginal tame that after showing how did the conquerors roofs to protect themselves, were exterminated.
So remote time and this amalgam that joined in Creole what remained of Aboriginal with Spanish, African, French, Portuguese, Chinese ... born Cuban. But in the Santiago resistance and unrepeatable elsewhere, that the words of Joel James put to a permanent guerrilla Santiago runaway slave settlements, which leaves him always ready to fight were accentuated.
It is known that half a millennium is an insignificant period in the history of mankind, but in our land is important because it summarizes what a resistance force the inhabitants of the village, a city in 1522, have been preserved. So we took 500 years to be Santiago and say with pride in the open, conscious of living in a simpar site, with special men and women living in a city where it meets the Caribbean Sea and the Sierra Maestra; where you at every step. is the memory of a hero or heroine. Of course when you no pride. Know who lives in the place without which it would be impossible to write the history of Cuba nor their culture.
And yet, the Santiago and realizes that is unique for its sympathy for his love of country, being always ready to help the needy selflessly; It is unique for the same reason that the Spanish colonialists never found a way to subdue Maceo, Guillermón, Mariana, Quentin ...

Advance eyes had dazzled when he saw green bay so sheltered and so bright, bathed in rivers. He did not hesitate to say, though they were now seven villas, this was the principal. And from here came the idea of the first Shield Santiago Island then welcomed him as their own; and Hernán Cortés set sail to conquer Mexico. It was and is the Santiago, earthquake country. But neither the vagaries of soil have moved the decision of the people to stay here.
Diego Velázquez told King that he would Santiago to the town. It was the second in so called in the Americas -the first was Santiago de los Caballeros-then joined 47 other santiagos. But none the pattern has the form of a serpent sword, so the love of the land.
The first cathedral was raised here; the first bishop who came to Cuba from Spain made it to Santiago de Cuba; the first three cathedrals looked at the bay, but from the fourth over here and look at the Town Hall Square, which is like looking with respect to the people. In the early eighteenth century the King of Spain to Santiago both bravery and courage he had to say: The Very Noble and Loyal; in the same building where they unveiled the distinction of the city and is emblematic of the city, a unique history is preserved: the American flag there in the early twentieth century was lowered to lift the Lone Star; It teaches that same coffin covered Emilio Bacardi; in this house remodeled and finished in 1954 from a project of the colony, the January 1, 1959, Fidel announced to the world that Cuba was finally free itself and that mambises enter into Santiago; Fidel himself in 1984 decorated the city with the distinction of Hero of the Republic of Cuba, and also told him excitedly Thanks Santiago.
Thank you for centuries of stoicism; for his support in every age to the struggle for freedom, independence and the Revolution; by Maceo, Bacardi, for Segrera and Prat Puig, for the Carnival; by representing that this city that meets 500 years as an inseparable part of national culture; by Heredia, Pepe Sanchez, Matamoros, Sindo Garay; by Frank País, on the Moncada, the Granjita and the hills of the Gran Piedra; by November 30; Vilma, Raul and Almeida; at 1. January 1959; because neither earthquakes and cyclones have been to this city that is the mainstay of the Cuban Revolution and displayed lush, colorful, bright and even youth to reach half a millennium rather than aging, for the work of its people. And simply because when any Cuban wants to "oxygenate" comes to Santiago de Cuba. What better to celebrate that this half a millennium!