Charity Church of The in Camagüey

The city of Camagüey in the capital of the county of it name and the head of it own municipality, Cuba.Anciently called Puerto Principe or Santa Maríadel puerto del Príncipe. Located this city on a wide sandy savanna, between the rivers Tínima and Hatibonico that cross it, in the center of it county and toward the center of the island. But this is it location since 1530, in that it was transferred from the Nuevitas Bay and near the lots that today Nuevitas occupies where Santa María del Puerto el principe was founded in the year 1514, to little of the arrival of the conquerors, by Vasco Porcayo de Figueroa, Mister in fact of the all district.

On December 15,1616 was devoured by a fire the first parochial temple that then was rebuilt without tower with the neighborhood's charities in 1617, didn`t added the first tower up to 1776 that was collapsed the following year. The current tower was not built up to 1794. That was the called bigger Parish. The Soledad's church was in its principles a hermitage whose construction began in 1697. The current parish began in 1758 to the neighborhood's expense and of the goods of the sister of the P. Adrián Varona. It was erected in parish in the year 1801. In it tower was the public clock since 1822 to 1825 in that it was transferred to the Mercedes' church to be more central and the highest tower.

Recent photo of the Church of the Charity in Camagüey.

Maceo Street in the City of Camagüey

With these foundations we can acquire an idea of the development of Camagüey, because in those times the Church followed the rhythm of the civic progress or era exponent of the same one. Camagüey since its foundation, urged by Diego Velázquez, had the title of Village, and located in the proximities of where today Nuevitas is, of where moved to its current place for the plague of mosquitos and the incursions of the pirates.