In an unusual place: almost in downtown , it was burned the Devil, and thus was closed the 36th Caribbean Festival in July 2016.
Unusual site of the ceremony, because traditionally the burning of Lucifer, one of the most popular rituals rooted in the Fiesta del Fuego took place a few meters from the waters of the Bay of Santiago, at a point of Alameda Michaelsen today in remodeling.
They paraded the representatives of the countries attending the Caribbean celebration, the same as at noon on Thursday closed at the Heredia Theater, the Colloquium El Caribe que nos une (Caribbean that unites us), space for reflection this time covered every day of the Festival, except the opening day, on July 3rd .

This afternoon, in the Céspedes Park, John Marten Portuondo, alias Wancho, Ifa priest handed the Mpaka Reinaldo Garcia Zapata, president of the Provincial Assembly of People's Power (Government) and other religious magical attributes that also contain "everything kind of celebration, "Lazaro Exposito Canto, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in the province of Santiago de Cuba, and Chaveco Tania Fernandez, Director of Culture in the territory.
To see the end of the event dedicated to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, thousands of Santiago met in both sidewalks of the central Aguilera street to see parading foreign delegations and Cubans carrier groups, most of these in the Santiago region, for the 500th anniversary of the founding of the town.

All they shined by the splendor of the show, but in truth, the delegation of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas exceeded estimates for its beauty and rhythm, and so was the ovation he received from the public thronging the environment "Céspedes" and surrounding streets .
Orality workshops, theater, visual arts; Caribbean encounters communicators 2000 and Poets of the Caribbean and the World Jesus Cos Causse, the International Workshop of Popular Religiosity Course, in addition to artistic presentations in more than 40 sites in this city completed the agenda of the annual festival's longstanding Cuba. That in every celebration, it increases its prestige to unite more and more peoples and cultures of the Caribbean region.