Over 78 000 visitors from almost all the Cuban provinces have been welcomed to date at the Pedro Agustín Pérez House Museum, inaugurated in this city on July 16, 2013 during a ceremony headed by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, current president of the Republic andfirst vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers by that time.
“It is an honor to visit this essential home, a patrimony of the main exponent of the liberation wars in this combative region of the country,” said the current First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in the guests book.
“Congratulations for giving the Guantanamo and Cuban people this paradigmatic site of our history. Success in future work!,” said Díaz-Canel after paying tribute to the distinguished Major General of the Liberation Army, whose mortal remains rest in the Guantanamo Mausoleum.
Juan Amelo Nápoles, museologist of the patrimonial entity dedicated to Periquito, as Mayor General Pedro Agustin Perez was popularly known, said that the names of memorable visits to the property, senior political leaders, prominent military chiefs, ministers, ambassadors, historians and cultural personalities are registered.
In its four rooms, documents and objects related to the Guantanamo mambi history are exhibited, among them the gala saber of Pedro Agustín, who stated on August 8, 1898 the following: “If our independence is not assured now, it is my desire to continue fighting for it thirty more years, if necessary.
The specialists and workers of the House Museum keep spaces such as Historiarte, Raíces and Entre Líneas, dedicated to children, young people and adults, respectively.
With the rescue a decade ago of the important place, the residents of Guantanamo and all Cuba, achieved a deeper approach to the life and work of one of the most illustrious patriots of the liberation deeds in Cuba.
Its opening also was an act of justice for the person in charge of the protection of the National Hero José Martí and General Máximo Gómez, during their trips through Guantanamo, after the disembarkation of both by the Playita de Cajobabo, on April 11, 1895.
