Oct
20
2020
Press Release: The Day of the Cuban Culture
Pretoria, October 20, 2020.- During 40 years, the people of Cuba has celebrated the Day of Cuban National Culture every October 20.
The date was instituted in commemoration of one of the most relevant events that the History of Cuba treasures, the intonation for the first time of the National Anthem, also on October 20, 1868.
Pedro Figueredo Cisneros, Major General of the Cuban Liberation Army, was the creator of that combat march entitled "La Bayamesa", sung by the people in the Cuban city of Bayamo, the day it was liberated by the Cuban Liberation Army.
