Camagüey City: A View From The Shift-Bar

The city of Camaguey, or the Tinajones City, in east-central province of Camaguey, has one of the largest, most beautiful and best preserved colonial centers of the island, its historic center has recently been declared by UNESCO as World Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Its historical and cultural wealth, the beauty of the environment and its parks and the hospitality of its people, proud of their city, make it a place with great potential; for tourists interested in knowing the deep Cuba, its culture and beauty of country that is not exposed in the commercials-tourism. The bar Change, popularly known as Change-Bar, is one of these sites located in the historic center of the city worth visiting for a drink, a soda, or why not to take a look at the city from special optics. A group of plastic artist in the city of Camagüey worked hard in the reanimation and atmosphere of a former building of the late seventeenth century, now become the recreation center Change, Palmares corporation in Camaguey province, very visited by tourists from all over the world and staffed by highly qualified personnel in the preparation of various cocktail bars.

In 1995 the painter, craftsman and potter Lasseria Oscar Rodriguez, with the help of plastic artists also Pedro Valdivia, Guillermo Lopez, Manuel Mayor, Jesús León and Alexis Rodriguez, decorated and decorated the facility, located a few meters from the park Ignacio Agramante. Change is often a place where artists meet the dissimilar manifestations of art, mainly painters, poets, storytellers and musicians who exchange on different aspects of culture in Camaguey, Cuba and universal. The facility was founded in 1909 as a ticket exchange house and from a design idea and Oscar Rodriguez Lasseria in 1995 began as recreation center, which in late 2005 was completely renovated by its author and the participation of the plastic artists, Oscar Rodriguez (son), Oscar Perez and Nelson Miranda Alvariño Varona. Since the bar is perceived Change part of the city is a very beautiful landscape: Agramonte Park to where I direct the gaze. There in the park, transit faithful witness of several generations of Camaguey is Llerga majestic statue of Ignacio Agramonte Major as fulfilling a dream of her friend Aurelia Castillo de González: "...

... it should always be high within our sight, as a symbol of purity and eternal moral example of civic greatness! "Inspired by the original site and current Camagüey poet Gustavo Perez, one of those literary circles, wrote a poem titled" Playing the kind, "while the artist, craftsman and potter Lasseria Oscar Rodriguez, his work has led to many popular sayings referring to the origins and current functions of the beautiful facility, where visitors can also capture their signatures and initiatives. .. Other bars and nightclubs in the city of Camaguey: - Bar Campana de Toledo, San Juan de Dios # 18 e / Ramon Pinto and Pedro Olallo - Cabaret Caribbean, Javier de la Vega Ave esq. to Freyre, Heights Casino Phone (s) (53 32) 29 8112 • Night Club - Casa de la Trova Ballagas Patricio Cisneros and / Martí and Christ • Telephone (s) (53 32) 29 1357 - Copacabana Night Club, Central Road East • Telephone (s) (53 32) 253 858 - Cubanitas Bar, Snacks, Independencia and San Ignacio, Cayo Coco