Beirut, October 20, 2020. Cubans living in Lebanon together with diplomats today honored the National Culture Day by interpreting the anthem of La Bayamesa and the famous Guantanamera.
The missions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba summoned residents and diplomatic representatives to sing the composition of the patriot Perucho Figueredo, inspired by those who began the fight for the country's independence.
On June 11, 1867, the Cuban national anthem began, which in its beginnings was called La Bayamesa to remember the French Marseillaise and because it was sung for the first time in Bayamo, in the eastern part of the Caribbean country.
However, October 20, 1868 is taken as the National Culture Day because on that date the Spanish authorities surrendered to a Cuban uprising in Bayamo and in a square in that city, everyone sang La Bayamesa as part of the celebrations for that victory.
Figueredo's work became the banner of those who faced the Spanish colonialist Army at the beginning of what the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, considered continuity of the country's emancipatory process. (Embacuba Lebanon / Prensa Latina)