CAMAGÜEY.- Although the local historians do not agree on when and where the cultural celebrations began in Santa María del Puerto del Principe, the truth is that the Camagüey cultivators have insisted on keeping present the necessary space for the arts station, coinciding, of course, with the anniversary of the founding of the village in an important city with much more than five corners.

For this year, the Camagüey's Culture Week, on an open stage from February 2nd to 7th, has been dedicated to outstanding spaces with notable roots in society, including the Casablana cinema, already in transit for its 75th anniversary; the Julio Antonio Mella Provincial Library with six decades of tenacious work.

The dedication of this anniversary is also oriented towards Artistic Education in Camagüey, the Plaza de la Revolución, the creation of the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets, the System of Culture Houses, the Ignacio Agramonte birthplace museum and the Maravilla de Florida orchestra.

On Wednesday first, and from the balconies of the bicentennial building of the City Council, the reading of the proclamation with which this program opens will take place at nine o'clock at night.

On day two, the city's 509th anniversary, the floral offering will be deposited before the sculptural complex dedicated to Major General Ignacio Agramonte, in the park that bears his name and the allegorical postal cancellation to date.

An inaugural parade from the Agramonte park to Legends park, the delivery of the 509th anniversary Layette at the Maternity Hospital and the inauguration of the 33rd City Hall at the Alejo Carpentier gallery, will give way, that same night, in San Juan de God to the Solemn Session of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power.

Among all the spaces reserved for this week's program, which includes exhibitions, literary workshops, concerts, artistic presentations and fairs, are the four houses of culture of our municipality in the popular councils Julio Antonio Mella, Ignacio Agramonte and Joaquín de Agüero, the Principal and Avellaneda theaters, the Alejo Carpentier gallery, the Fairgrounds, the Student museums and the one in the Mayor's birthplace; as well as the wide spaces of the Agramonte park, and the squares of El Gallo, Joaquín de Agüero, Maceo and San Juan de Dios.