The historic Torch March will light up the streets from the University Staircase to the Fragua Martiana and, on this occasion, most of the torches, which will descend the steps of the University of Havana, and which will cross other streets in the country, were built by children and their parents.
There are more than 20,000 torches in an open corner of the University of Havana, and many more in other places, and none of them are alike.
On this occasion, the event will be dedicated to the 172nd anniversary of the birth of José Martí, 130th of his death in combat at Dos Ríos, 72nd of the first March and to the everlasting example of its protagonists, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and the Centennial Generation.
Under the motto A Fire Always Young, Cuban, leaders, members of the University Student Federation (FEU), the Union of Young Communists (UJC), solidarity activists from around the world, participants in the Fifth International Conference for World Balance and other sectors of society will gather at the starting point.