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Our Constitution Park then and now

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Guaimaro park before the construction of the obelisk. The Constitution Park is the most important civic space in Guaimaro city and in it, transcendental events of the Cuban nation have been developed, what distinguishes it today is a monument that is a symbol of Guaimaro: the Constitution members Obelisk and Cuban patriots of the nineteenth century.

The slim, majestic obelisk wasn´t always there, it was built in 1944 to visually close the square and resignify the space that was first Public or Arms Square during the colony, then in 1928 by a resolution of the City Council it was named Constitution Park and it was given a symbolic structure divided into six paddocks or large parterre representing the old six Cuban provinces: Oriente, Camaguey, Las Villas, Matanza, Havana and Pinar del Río.

In the complex Four Royal Palms were planted, banks were made of marmolina, multiplying the number besides the lighting system was changed to a modern for the time with bomb luminaries and columns cast in metal.

That structure and image remained until the Constitution Park was redesigned in 1944 to place on the Obelisk to the Constituent definitely changed the face of the park as it remains today.

Constitution Park at present.