Gibara: More than 205 years of romance with the sea
- Written by Liset Prego Díaz
- Published in Opinion
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Photos: Juan Pablo Carreras
In Gibara everything leads to the sea. Life and history are born in it. The Atlantic Ocean brought Christopher Columbus and his ships in October 1492 to this shores and historical records speak of a beautiful bay called by the navigator Río de Mares, as written memory shows how the Gibara landscape captivates the visitor.
City of legends, it was founded on January 16, 1817, date established from the first stone laid to build a fortification, although aboriginal people inhabited the area long before.
Perhaps because of that heritage of those first inhabitants that remains in some portion of the genetics of today's inhabitants, throbbing in its streets with 205 years of history, an ancestral desire to be firm in the face of adversity.
Tere is in its people a consubstantial roots and a sense of ownership over the perfect sky and the foam that splashes the passer-by who walks near the sea.
Lovers go to the sea to promise each other absolute love before the pine tree that guards the bay, fishermen return from the sea with the harvest of sweat and saltpeter.
The city persists in reinventing itself, rescuing old buildings, preserving in museums time stopped in beauty and in the extraordinary of nature, insisting on being the definitive scene, framed and ready for the filming of its reality in a perpetual film that, from somewhere, Humberto Solás, the devoted filmmaker of its corners, observes.
