According to a note from the Cuban News Agency (ACN), The Railway Museum of Camagüey today received the Restoration Award, granted by the National Council of Cultural Heritage.
More than three years of work under the direction of the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey (OHCC), allowed to rescue an emblematic space in one of the first Cuban regions that had the railway in the mid-nineteenth century.
The building is located in the Historic Center of Camagüey, a World Heritage Site, a few meters from the Plaza Hotel, the oldest in operation in the city, visited by the great Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral.
“The iron road will bring to Camagüey everything that it does not have today and will not have three centuries from now, unless it makes the noble effort to build a road to Nuevitas,” said Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros, “El Lugareño” in 1838.
Camagüey had its first sections of railway lines in 1851, with the Puerto Príncipe-Nuevitas route.
In a ceremony held at the Castillo de Atarés on World Monuments and Sites Day, José Rodríguez, director of the OHCC, spoke of the importance of conserving spaces of this type, material representatives of the most valuable elements of Cuban culture.
