Havana, August 14 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel has confirmed that more than one million eight hundred thousand people have visited the site where Fidel Castro's remains are interred.  

Writing on his official Twitter account, Díaz Canel said that people from across the island and around the world have visited the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba since Fidel passed away on November 25, 2016.

To commemorate the 93rd anniversary of Fidel Castro's birth, on August 13th, the Cuban president noted that the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution is reverred as one of the greatest figures in the island's history, and an heir to the legacy of Cuba's National Hero Jose Marti.