This petty Doric monument was erected where the first mass was celebrated and the first cabildo (local colonial government meeting) was held in San Cristóbal de La Habana. It was innerly decorated with three mural by French painter Juan Bautista Vermay, who was settler of San Alejandro Arts Academy. Every year, in this spot and surrounding the ceiba tree, takes place the celebration conmmemorating the settlement of the Village. A tradition kept alive by the Cuban Revolution.

He was born in March 19th, 1856 and died in January 3rd, 1918. He is considered the father of Cuban trova song. He was mentor of Sindo Garay. According to testimonies by his contemporaries, it is known he was an excelent guitarist and singer. In 1880 he composed his earliest boleros, songs, guarachas and habaneras: \"Cristinita\", \"El tabaquero\", \"Himno a Maceo\", \"Pobre artista\", \"De profundis\", \"Rosa I\", \"Rosa II\", \"Rosa III\", \"Cuba, mi patria querida\", \"Elvira\", \"Caridad, \"Esperanza\" and what is considered the first bolero, \"Tristezas\". Master of prestigious Cuban music personalities such as: Alberto Villalón (1882-1954), Pepe Banderas (1894-1971), Miguel Matamoros (1894-1971) and Sindo Garay (1867-1968).

He was born in Havana, in March 19th, 1861 and died in this city in September 28th, 1942. Director of San Alejandro Arts School. Gifted with an academic, vital, truthful realism he was kept aside from incoporating Cuban painting to contemporary European art trend. Consecuently with his historical times, he quit his classroom in San Alejandro, where he imparted classes, for joining the José Martí´s Necessary War, and became Assistant of General in Chief Máximo Gómez Baez. Armando Menocal was able to get the visual evaluation from the facts he witnessed. Paintings depicting historical moments are owed to him. As evidence we have : Coliseo and the Death of Maceo, dated 1906. Among his outstading decoration works are the decoration of the former Presidential Palace and the Aula Magna of the University of Havana.

He was born in Santiago de Cuba in March 19th, 1891 and died in April 19th, 1967. He outstands as interpreter of Cuban Trova music, together with Gabriel Rubio, Juan Limonta and José Figarola. He worked as carpenter. From his youth he suffered from nervous breakdown, so he was secluded in the Mazorra Psiquiatric Hospital, from where he left in better conditions, some time later. He was professor of the extraordinary guitarist Vicente González Rubiera, Guyún. He composed the songs: "Boca roja", "La sirena", "Volvió mi corazón", "Sabrás que por ti", "La cima" and "María".

The museum Oscar María de Rojas –the second of Cuba after the Bacardí, in Santiago de Cuba was settled in the City of Cárdenas in March 19th,1900. It was named after his creator 22 years after, when this great mambí died. Among his assets, the reputed cultural institution has 28 items related with José Martí, included the tribune from Club San Carlos, of Tampa, from where he spoke to the cigar makers; a dagger from Antonio Maceo and a revolver gifted by Cárdenas patriot Emilia Casanova to the Father of the Cuban Country, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

He was born in Manzanillo, former Oriente province, in November 2nd, 1844 and died on March 19th, 1905. At the age of twelve he began learning typography in the printing house of Francisco Murtra. He worked as compositor in the printing house of La Regeneración newspaper in Bayamo (former Oriente province). In 1860 he joined the Seminar of Santiago de Cuba, but he quit to carry on his ecclesiastical career. He wrote articles for La Aurora and El Comercio. In 1867 he moved to Havana where he worked as professor in the Colegio Santo Tomás and as political editor of El Siglo. Besides, he collaborated in La Opinión and in El País, where his article “Laboremus” ("Let´s Work") was published. According to some, the word “Laborantes” (“Labourers”), given by Spanish auhorities to those independence activists came from it. In 1869 he collaborated with La Verdad (The Truth) and settled El Tribuno. Prison and death threatened, he was forced to emigrate to the United States. In New York, through La Revolución newspaper, official organ of the Junta Cubana, he held a politic polemic with Juan Clemente Zenea. In 1870 he was appointed director of this publishing. He also settled and directed, the Diario Cubano (1870) in New York. He travelled to Europe. He collaborated in La Liberté and in Revista Latinoamericana(1874).

He settled in Colombia, where he was private secretary of President Rafael Núñez; honour member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua, secretary of the Ateneo, collaborator of La Reforma, Repertorio Colombiano, La Estrella de Panamá, El Estudio, El Promotor (from Barranquilla) and El Hispano-americano (from Panama), as well as editor of La Luz newspaper (1881-1884). In 1890, as provisional attitude, he pronounced in favor of Autonomism, but when the 1895 war broke out he returned to his separatist position: He worked as delegate of the Revolutionary Party in Colombia and fought press campaigns in Rayos X from Bogota. With his article “La redención de un mundo”, published in Repertorio Colombiano, his journalist campaign pro the independence of Cuba was closed. In his letter addressed to Juan Gualberto Gómez, on May 1901 imagine protective relations from the United States of America to Cuba. In 1899 he was appointed representative, from Oriente, to the Cámara Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Chamber) to be met in Santa Cruz del Sur, but he could not move to Cuba. He did not accept from the U.S Intervention Government the appointment of Professor of History of America in the University. He was appointed public minister and plenipotentiary minister in Spain and France by Tomás Estrada Palma, (First Constitutional President of the Republic of Cuba). He arrived to Santiago de Cuba in 1902 and was homaged as well as attacked by the press in Oriente and in Havana. He moved to Spain, where he got sick. So he had to travel to Paris and to London for health problems. From Spain he went to Colombia. Published Versos de Rafael Nuñez (1885). He wrote the foreword for his work La reforma política en Colombia (1885). He compiled and wrote the foreword for Gustavo Ortega´s letters entitled Un ex-libertador. He compiled in a volume and wrote the foreword of the articles: A la memoria de Francisco Javier Cisneros (1900). He made use of pseudonyms: El anotador literario, Benigno, Cauto, P. M. Casqueado, Jasón and Sportsman in Colombian publishings; Un cubano en Estados Unidos, Huberto and initials J. M. M., in Cuban publishings. He signed with his initial letters in different ways his articles.

He was born in May 8th, 1940 and died in New York in March 19th 2001. Being a teenager he joined the revolutionary struggle against Fulgencio Batista dictatorship and the July 26th Revolutionary Movement led by Fidel Castro. He got some awards on behalf of his dramatic labour. As filmaker he developed a long career as documentary maker and conducted long feature documentaries. Some of his documentaries were awarded in national and international festivals.