Enramadas is the most populous street in the city of Santiago de Cuba and if you doubt just stop at any time of day to appreciate the coming and going of people in an intense commercial and gastronomic life.
It was baptized with this name d when the mid XVIII century the religious population of the town began the processions through the central route, heading to the cathedral, and neighbor's built booths of guano and other plants to decorate and also mitigate the hot sun.
Every corner that looks around Enramadas holds a lot of history as,for example, the intersection with Carniceria, which was a public pillory to punish rebellious slaves during the colonial system of the time.
Over the centuries it became the main road of the city, since from the Plaza de Marte to St. Thomas abounded service units.
Just one of the projects launched by the half millennium of the founding of the town of Santiago de Cuba, on 25 July, plans to open from St. Thomas to Avenida Jesus Menendez other establishments with various offers for the population.
It is to revive the entire ride to benefit the lower part of the city, where various proposals will expand recreational opportunities for children, youngsters and adults.
In that artery decades ago inspired the composer Pedro Gomez and put the letter in the hands of the master Adalberto Alvarez, then the front of the set are 14.
One of its verses reads: "Street Enramadas wholesale / girlfriend of our city / populous main artery of my Santiago. I like to see, to heat the hot sun / happy smiling people walking ... /.