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.
Whenever the glorious date of July 26 approaches, its evocation inevitably leads us to count. Sometimes we took the epic of the fact; others, the fruit of the seed planted that day.
¿How many times I saw him through the streets of the city? Retracing it with his lanky figure, his mystery. The corners are made at the step in his sandals. The walls have to keep the echo of his words.
History has confirmed an undeniable truth about the actions of July 26, 1953, when, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, were attacked the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in Bayamo. There, more than against two enemy positions and the military that defended, it was fought against an unjust social system.
The International Network of Cities Santiago was established as a common good beyond the borders to the conservation of cultural heritage values as a resource and sustainable socio-economic development of these cities. In the city of Santiago de Cuba, on the threshold of its 500 years of existence, was held the act of creation of this network, on which Dr. Elsi Zaldivar, president of the Academic Committee said:

