Havana, officially founded November 16, 1519, the then Governor of Diego Velazquez, with the name of Villa de San Cristóbal de
The anniversary will be celebrated with the inauguration of buildings restored historic, concerts, sporting events and the traditional "ceremony" to the Temple, where, 490 years ago, according to tradition, under the Ceiba tree, the first mass was celebrated and chose the first "town council", the local government composed of representatives of the three powers of the English military, civil and religious.
Every year, from midnight on November 15 at midnight on 16 for 24 consecutive hours, on the occasion of the birthday of Havana, long lines of people, including many tourists, they go under the ceiba tree in the Template for a ancient ritual that is lucky to make three slow laps counterclockwise around the trunk, touching without speaking with three wishes, one for each lap completed.
course, is not the original ceiba nearly five centuries ago, but it's a young tree planted in 1959.
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