Bayamo is the physical space where what we today identify as Cuban culture is born. On October 20, 1868, it marked the climax of a process of mixtures and influences begun centuries ago: the crowd sang for the first time La Bayamesa and that moment was fixed as the symbolic birth of the nation, a date instituted as the Day of Cuban Culture.
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Bayamo is the physical space where what we today identify as Cuban culture is born. On October 20, 1868, it marked the climax of a process of mixtures and influences begun centuries ago: the crowd sang for the first time La Bayamesa and that moment was fixed as the symbolic birth of the nation, a date instituted as the Day of Cuban Culture.