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Artemisa,
Mausoleo a las Martires de Artemisa
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2001)
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28 people of the 119
Revolutionaries who attacked the Moncada Barracks in 1953 came from the
region of Artemisa. In this mausoleum 17 men are buried. 14 died in the
attack of the Moncada Barracks or were captured and killed by Batista's
men afterwards. The other three were also "Moncada Veterans"
and died later during the Sierra Maestra period of the Cuban
Revolution. |
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Artemisa, Avenida 28
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More Artemisa
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On
May 15, 1955 Fidel Castro and the other prisoners involved in the
Moncada attack disembarked here from the ferry boat "El Pinero". |
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Havana,
Melena
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2003)
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Melena
was the "Primer Territorio Libre de Analfabetismo": the first
region in Cuba after the Revolution without analphabetism. In the small
monument at the beginning of the district of Melena the famous lantern
hangs in remembrance of the anti-analphabetism campaign in the sixties
of the last century. In Havana
city is a museum dedicated to this anti-analphabetism
campaign. |
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You can find the small monument on the road from Melena del Sur to Guines
at the intersection to Surgidero de Batabano
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