The 145th anniversary of the taking of this city by Major General Vicente García González, this Thursday the 23rd marks the beginning of the Las Tunas Culture Event, with a program that will be carried out, essentially, virtually.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- For the locals, September 26 is a very significant date, because that day, in 1876, Las Tunas was set on fire by the mambisa firebrand, after being taken by his illustrious son, the Lion of Santa Rita, that preferred to see it "burned rather than a slave."

The cultural festivities will close a week later, on September 30, when the 225th anniversary of the founding of the city, to which the event is dedicated.

The program is designed to deliver, at its opening, the prizes to the winners of the Letters of Love to my City Contest, and then, an event on local tradition will take place.

In the following days, in El Tanque cultural plaza and the Tomasa Varona cultural center, meetings related to the radio base mode will be held; as well as a simulation of the burning of the town, which was carried out 145 years ago by Vicente García, who ordered start the fire in his own house, today, a Memorial Museum that bears his name.

The 25th will be another day awaited by the people of Las Tunas, as it will be the location in the historic center of a monument dedicated to Alberto Jaramillo, a character who for more than five decades walked the streets of Las Tunas with his military uniform and the ranks of Commander, as well represented in his sculptural work by the plastic artist Ángel Luis Velázquez Guerra.

As Jaramillo called himself "Comandante", the people also called him that nickname. For his solitary and mythical pilgrimage, he is to Las Tunas what the Knight of Paris is to Havana.

Each center linked to Culture will carry out activities, with a very limited presence of the public to avoid the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, while at the closing, the documentary Como ave fénix (Like a phoenix), by the director Leonel José Pérez Peña, will be exhibited.