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Sagua la Grande - small city that is located on the shore of the Sagua La Grande river, in the northern of Villa Clara province. It is known as the Villa del Undoso, its head of the municipality.
Sagua la Grande is the second largest city in the territory of Villa Clara in terms of industrial development and the third in population.
It is also the cradle of prestigious personalities of science and culture such as
Dr. Joaquin Albarran and the painter
Wifredo Lam.Its historic urban center was declared a National Monument in 2011.
The name "Sagua" comes from "Cagua", it is a term that, in the language of the first habitants of the region, meant "Site of abundant water".
The founding of the city officially took place on December 8, 1812, by that time there was already a population settlement on this site and since the end of the seventeenth century. The city was founded by Don Juan Caballero.
Initially a
small hermitage was built and the first mass was celebrated there. It is then that from that date the population experienced rapid growth and development.
On June 3, 1817 the town's Captaincy was created and in 1822 the Town Hall.
The development of Sagua continued until the 1920s, then came the crisis.
In the 1950s it was already an economically important city, it concentrated a large part of the industry of the center of Cuba, even during the Republic it was considered the second industrial city of Cuba.
Its monuments and buildings.
Sagua la Grande, currently preserves the neoclassical spirit in its urban planning, that is why
the historic center of Sagua la Grande was declared a National Monument on December 6, 2011.For that date, the status of National Monument was granted to Máximo Gómez, Luz Caballero, Libertadores and Enrique J. Varona streets. In addition, several protected areas were also registered, such as the “José Luis Robau” Mausoleum, the old city jail and the river area with its buildings and with the declaration of the historic center of Sagua la Grande as a National Monument all its properties they were protected by law.
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