Sancti Spíritus Identity

It is rightly said that our land is rich in cultural traditions. More than five centuries of history give it a special charm that ranges from colonial architecture to trova or crafts.

This tradition is sustained by the existence of a popular culture that defines our most determining identity traits.

Popular culture, in most cases, created by the most humble people, created to satisfy their needs and in a specific context.

Popular culture has remained in constant movement and development, adapting to each historical period, while writing the most important pages of our identity.

Traditional popular culture from Sancti Spiritus is varied and diverse, forming a wide range in which races, psychologies and modes of expression are harmoniously integrated. Afro-Cuban culture, Canarian culture, in both cases with its folklore, customs and artisanal expression, make up that “Ajiaco” from Sancti Spiritus, with flavors and colors that have resisted the passage of centuries.

Popular festivals, traditional groups, typical foods, popular characters, linguistic specificities and artistic manifestations, make up the core of our tradition.

For the Cuban state, it has been a constant concern to keep these cultural traditions alive, for which research events of all kinds are held annually, in addition to promoting these exhibitions, so that the younger generations, drinking from the sources, have a present without forgetting the past.

Our independence is closely linked to our culture. The modernism of a banalized and global world cannot mean for Cubans a break with that past that forged us.

For these evils, sometimes inevitable from the homogenization of the world, we must turn to our traditions, to our culture; it protects an entire arsenal of ideas, concepts and popular wisdom that make it the “Shield and Sword of the nation.”