Santiago de Cuba pays tribute to Fidel Castro six years after his burial

Santiago de Cuba, December 4 (Prensa Latina)-- Hundreds of men, women, young people and children returned to Santiago de Cuba today to parade along Patria Avenue to commemorate the six years since the burial of Fidel Castro's ashes in the patrimonial cemetery of Santa Ifigenia.

The santiagueros thus reedited that other Sunday with which Cubans concluded a week that moved the archipelago from end to end, with the tour of the funeral urn that left Havana following the physical departure of the historic leader of the Revolution, on November 25, 2016.

A wreath on behalf of the Cuban people was placed in front of the monolith that holds the remains, next to the Mausoleum to the National Hero José Martí and the monuments to Carlos M. de Céspedes and Mariana Grajales, the Father and Mother of the Homeland, respectively.

Since the date of his death, the city has been the epicenter of multiple expressions of remembrance to the man who came to the city as a child, spent some years of his early adolescence and returned, at the head of young revolutionaries, to storm the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953.

In numerous corners of the urban fabric is his footprint, with the zenith of the proclamation of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution from the balconies of his City Hall, on January 1, 1959.

For those reasons it was not surprising that in the early hours of a Sunday, that day usually destined to rest and leisure, so many people gathered to revere it and confirm that phrase of the poet: "It is Santiago de Cuba.  Do not be amazed at anything"!