Under the name of “Sendero Martiano” (José Martí Trail), the Botanical Garden of Las Tunas treasures a project with the desire to pay tribute to José Martí through nature, which hopes to see its early materialization as a novel sociocultural initiative.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- Speaking exclusively to the Cuban News Agency, Irma Bello Acosta, deputy director of the institution -belonging to the Territorial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment (CITMA in Spanish)-, said that the project is approved and awaiting its civil completion, as a setting.
"The plant collections that recreate the vegetal formations that the Apostle narrated in his Campaign Diary during his passage through Playita de Cajobabo are already in the Botanical Garden," the expert pointed out.
Bello Acosta explained that, with the help of artists from the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets (FCBC, by its Spanish acronym), the completion of the beach, the boat, and a hut are planned as a recreation of José Martí's journey from Haitian Cape to Dos Ríos.
In the trail, there will be a bohío with the conuco, coffee, and indoor and short-cycle plants, such as roses, to complement the path with the two types of plant formations Martí collected in his logbook, she said.
Conceived as part of the center sociocultural bet, the José Martí Trail also includes the rock formations and other elements of that zone, thus gaining ground in teaching specialties such as History, Botany, and Geography.
The Botanical Garden of Las Tunas works to connect local history and culture with the most autochthonous patriotic values; thus, the El Cucalambé Trail is also located in its facilities, in tribute to the most important bucolic poet of the nineteenth century in Cuba, Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo (El Cucalambé).
The Garden, located at kilometer 2 of the road that connects the capital of this eastern Cuban province, is surrounded by the Zoo, the Amusement Park, and El Cornito farm, famous since it was where El Cucalambé composed most of his works.
If completed this year, the José Martí Trail would become a new site to pay tribute to the most universal of all Cubans in the year of the 172nd anniversary of his birth.
