Our Region

Once his size was given it is considered the biggest urban park of Cuba and the second one of Latin America nowadays - span an extension of over 131 thousand 500 square meters -. For it, care over the years, and the numerous sculptural works that rise in different points of the same, cause great admiration to passerbies and national and foreign visitors. Green Corazón of the city, place of memories and expansion, it is said that the Park Gonzalo of Quesada is the greatest included inside a city, in all Cuba - popularly Rustic Casino -. Gather in his inside leafy trees and beautiful examples of the art of making statues. This park was founded in April 1860 like Sociedad of Spanish Recreo Casino, a little while later it became quite an event in the metropolis. Gift Mariano Aramburu, a cultísimo camagüeyano of the epoch, who had traveled a lot, said not to know about no foreign, population city and importance equivalent to the ones of Camaguey, that he had similar ornament. Your origin bears relation to the fairs of Charity, agricultural and industrial parties that had a lot of success in her formerly Villa of Santa María of the Port of the Prince (original name of that city). To a side of the neighborhood of Charity and between the banks of the river Hatibonico and the brook John of the Toro, in lots of the foundational part of the village, the first Fair Exposición moved in (1856-1889), and where it got seated for the future generation the great Rustic Casino