la urbanística de Sancti Spíritus

AREQUIPA, Peru – The winding and complex streets of the Historic Center of Sancti Spíritus bring to mind the distant times of the Colony, when the people of Sancti Spíritus of that time increased the population guided by the guidelines of the Metropolis, but adapting them to the island’s spontaneity.

According to the expert in heritage issues, Alicia García Santana, quoted by the official newspaper EscambrayThe urban layout of Cuba’s fourth largest town owes much to the geographic isolation of its initial population.

This allowed Sancti Spíritus to maintain almost unchanged the urban structure of its foundation, derived from the regular urban planning of the late medieval Spain. This is how the city became known for being full of nooks and crannies, famous gaps and surprising little squares.

“It also bears the marks of the complex integration process, through which two types of urban layouts were linked: that of the Spanish village, made up of almost parallel streets and extended between the Parish Church and that of La Caridad, and what was possibly the original settlement of the Aborigines, the Indian village, characterized by the irregularity of its streets, represented by the neighborhood adjacent to the church of Jesús Nazareno,” says García Santana.

Sancti Spíritus is one of the oldest cities in Cuba, celebrating this year its 510th anniversary of rich and vibrant history. After more than five centuries, it still retains the spirit and charm of those who gave birth to it in Pueblo Viejo in 1514, making it the fourth town on the Island, after Baracoa, Bayamo and Trinidad.

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