From the authorship of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Santiago de Cuba owes one of the poems that identify it , when founded inspiration in this land the Spaniard intellectual during a visit to the city.
Named Son to Santiago de Cuba, better known as'Iré a Santiago (l' ll go to Santiago), by the verse that reads: /Cuando llegue la luna llena/ Iré a Santiago de Cuba / Iré a Santiago/ En un coche de aguas negras/ Iré a Santiago/. (/ When the moon full reaches / I will go to Santiago de Cuba / I will go to Santiago / in a black car I will go to Santiago / ).
For its significance and importance, these verses are of obligatory reference when talking about this city in scenarios within or outside the country.
Garcia Lorca arrived in Havana in 1930, invited by the Hispano-Cuban Society of Culture.
His foray into the eastern city left traces in his literary creation, although it generated some controversy among researchers of its truth or not, but scholars of the writer's life and work have shown that Lorca did visit Santiago de Cuba and has a tight but comprehensive program that fully complied.
Lorca had a very short life, lived for only 38 years, being assassinated in 1936 by Phalangist forces in Granada, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
The time he lived was enough to become a symbol of the Spanish progressive culture
The verses of "I will go to Santiago" are for this land part of their literary heritage.