Photo Album page 2 ~ our visit to Cuba:
 
Between July 6 and July 16 1999, fourteen descendants of Perucho Figueredo, representing four generations, took advantage of an invitation from the director of del Archivo Nacional de Cuba to visit Cuba

They are shown here at the plantation Las Mangas, once Perucho Figueredo's sugar plantation, near Bayamo. They are:

(from left, standing): Maria Ximena Garavito; Bernardo Ortiz (Maria Ximena's husband); Pilar Torres; Clara Figueredo (a Cuban, the granddaughter of one of Perucho's brothers); Carlos Andres Perez; Aurora Arciniegas; Rodrigo Rueda; [???]; Maria de la Luz Giraldo; Zoila Cuadras (a Cuban, also a granddaughter of one of Perucho's brothers); Lorraine; Amparo Rueda; Gabriela Santa; Ana Elena de Arazoza (a Cuban, our guide), and a Cuban gentleman who now lives on the property. --- (from left, sitting): Ines Arciniegas (80 years old); Lucia Arciniegas (83); and Julia Arciniegas (85). Julia Helena Torres (4 months old), the baby daughter of Pilar Torres, isn't shown.

The party spent two days in Havana, a week in Bayamo with a tour to Santiago de Cuba and Le Cobre, a two days in Trinidad before returning to Havana, thirteen descendants of Perucho Figueredo from Colombia, the USA, and Spain flew to Cuba at the invitation of the Musee Especial de Havana. Between July 2 and July 21 1999, thirteen descendants of Perucho Figueredo from Colombia, the USA, and Spain flew to Cuba at the invitation of the Musee Especial de Havana. Between July 2 and July 21 1999, thirteen descendants of Perucho Figueredo from Colombia, the USA, and Spain flew to Cuba at the invitation of the Musee Especial de Havana.
 
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our lodgings at the Convento Santa Clara in Havana Candelaria Figueredo's flag in the Archivo Nacional de Cuba in Havana Morro Castle, Havana The Cementerio de Colón, Havana grave of Candelaria Figueredo in the Cementerio de Colón
The church in Bayamo plaque on the church commemorating the first public performance of La Bayamesa in 1868 outside Perucho's casa natal plaque on Perucho's casa natal painting of Candelaria Figueredo, la abanderada, found in the Céspedes Museum in Bayamo
the family at Perucho's monument program welcoming "descendants of Perucho Figueredo" view of Las Mangas, once Figueredo's sugar mill in Bayamo Las Mangas building now converted into a restaurant rusted machinery in the fields at Las Mangas
 
the church in Trinidad the plaza in Trinidad street musicians in Trinidad   street scene, near Santiago de Cuba
The monument to Figueredo in Santiago Monument to the martyrs of the Virginius and la tumba simbólica de Perucho in Santiago plaque remembering the martyrs of the Virginius The site of Perucho Figueredo's execution plaque recalling Figueredo's execution
 
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