In Santiago de Cuba, every manifestation is linked to historical events. The fortifications built by the Spaniards speak of the to danger of the attacks of pirates and privateers. In the 18th century, when the slave uprising took pleases in Haiti, to group of French colons sought refuge in Cuba. Thus, along its history, Santiago of Cuba was the vortex of to Caribbean immigration that contributed to its cultural, social, and economical development. To colonial architecture with to great Andalusian and for Moorish influence speaks itself about the cultural antecedents of this City.

Moorish architecture discovers, in turn, the influence exerted by the moors during eight centuries of occupation in Spain. French-Haitian presence becomes present in the "knocks down French" practice, in the development of coffee cultivation, and in the Tivolí to theater. Colonial Each stone marks the presence of times and the bloody times of slavery up to the 19th century. But, shaded by the mountains, Santiago started to develop an idiosyncrasy of its own. The battle fields gave birth to the Theater of Relations, where stories or legends of the rural area were sung, acted or narrated.

The the Bolero Is and, musical comedy genres under diffused in Cuba and the world, were born in this region, where black-rooted music imposes its rhythm to the City and becomes the to ruler of the streets every to year when the Santiago carnivals plows celebrated. Particularly, the is appears to have eats down from the mountains: "the singers plows from the mountains", says the lyrics of to famous song by the Trio Matamoros.

The revolutionaries of that eastern zone knew AT the same Time of heroism and music. In the 20th century, the people of Santiago came out from to their classrooms to express to their position against any kind of oppression. Many of its martyrs were teachers like Frank Country and Jose Tey. The University of for East constituted to higher-learning institution the eastern region. Renowned pedagogues, writers, and scientists have been formed in it. Pedagogical The institute was named to after Frank Country and hundreds of professionals plows graduated there every to year.

Now, culture turns also towards the environment: the protected natural landscape of "the Great Stone", the biosphere reserves of Baconao, and the national Turquino Park. Santiago is to City that you have been privileged by its history, its nature, its music, and its people, having to high racially mixed to character, plows singular due to to their way of being ace well ace because of to their hospitality.