A solemn municipality session was held in Sancti Spiritus’s Principal Theater this June 4th to commemorate the 499th anniversary of the village, one of the first seven founded by Spaniards in Cuba.»

The bells of the churches in this central Cuban city will tolled at midnight this June 3rd to give a beginning to the festivities for the 499th anniversary of the fourth Cuban village, founded in 1514.»

With more clarification on the foundation issue than on the order it got among the first villages founded in Cuba, Sancti Spiritus will welcome its 499th anniversary next June 4th .»

Researchers have located the first settlement of the town of the Espiritu Santo (Holy Spirit), in the center of Cuba, which on June 4 will get to the 499th years of its foundation by the Spanish.»

The celebrations will take place from June 1st to 4th, the latter date chosen to celebrate the birth of the village whose historic center has been declared a National Monument.»

The upcoming 500th foundation anniversary of Trinidad and Sancti Spiritus, the third and fourth villages founded by Diego Velazquez in Cuba, is enough pretext for a celebration that has derived several changes in both territories.»

The largest stretch of this avenue has been already restored.  »

It will be difficult for those who tour the city of Sancti Spiritus, in central Cuba, not to be amazed at the many traces left by Diego Velazquez, and the following “conquerors” on local institutions, streets and squares.»

Adriana and Rosa Aurora handed over two guayabera shirts from their husbands, both of which will be part of the collection to be exhibited, from today on, in the Casa de la Guayabera (House of the Guayabera), opened this Monday at the former Quinta Santa Elena restaurant.»

Guayaberas owned by Cuban antiterrorist fighters Gerardo Hernandez and Fernando Gonzalez are to be handed over to Sancti Spiritus cultural heritage during the solemn Municipal Assembly of the People’s Power, specially called on the occasion of the 498th anniversary, this June 4th,  of Sancti Spiritus city.»