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Friday, 1 November 2013

At the cemetery "Cementerio Santa Ifigenia" in Santiago de Cuba is the Mausoleum of Jose Marti


Cementerio Santa Ifigenia is the large cemetery for freedom fighters and revolutionaries from Santiago de Cuba

You have to pay entrance fee to visit the cemetery and if you want to make photos you'll need to buy another ticket

At the entrance there are some guides who speak English


Left on the cemetery stands the mausoleum of Jose Marti

A tower of stone from Havana (representing his youth) on a surface of marble


In the center is a marble statue of Marti




Every half hour the guard changed with music






Along the main avenue is the tomb of y Emilio Bacardi Moreau

The pyramid of black marble has a truncated top and symbols
that he was a freemason












Opposite the mausoleum of Marti lying several "martyrs of the revolution", including a number of fighters during the attack on the Moncada barracks deceased in 1953




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