Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Next stop was the Cementerio Santa Ifigenia.
Every half an hour with much pomp and ceremony accompanied by piped music they change the guard at the mausoleum of Cuba national hero, Jose Marti (1853-95). His wooden casket is draped in Cuban flag and receives daily shafts of sunlight. "No me entierren en lo oscuro/ A morir como un traidor/ Yo soy bueno y como bueno/ Moriré de cara al sol." ("Do not bury me in darkness / to die like a traitor / I am good, and as a good man / I will die facing the sun.")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD
Nestled peacefully on the city's western extremity, the Cementerio Santa Ifigenia is second only to Havana's Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón in its importance and grandiosity. Created in 1868 to accommodate the victims of the War of Independence and a simultaneous yellow-fever outbreak, the Santa Ifigenia includes many great historical figures among its 8000-plus tombs, notably the mausoleum of José Martí.
Names to look out for include Tomás Estrada Palma (1835–1908), Cuba's now disgraced first president; Emilio Bacardí y Moreau (1844–1922) of the famous rum dynasty; María Grajales, the widow of independence hero Antonio Maceo; and Mariana Grajales, Maceo's mother; 11 of the 31 generals of the independence struggles; the Spanish soldiers who died in the battles of San Juan Hill and Caney; the 'martyrs' of the 1953 Moncada Barracks attack; M-26-7 activists Frank and Josué País; father of Cuban independence, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1819–74); and international celebrity-cum-popular-musical-rake, Compay Segundo (1907–2003) of Buena Vista Social Club fame.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/cuba/eastern-cuba/santiago-de-cuba/sights/cemeteries-memorials-tombs/cementerio-santa-ifigenia#ixzz3x6Zs7bQA
Cementerio Santa Ifigenia
Monday, December 28, 2015
Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
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