Artemisa, Cuba – There are already in Artemisa seven monuments declared National Monument; among them there are the Mausoleum to the Martyrs of Artemisa and the ruins of the Angerona Coffee Plantations.

On the importance of caring for the museum pieces and having updated inventories in each place, for the immediate location of the pieces, dealt the masterly lecture that Gladys María Collazo, president of the National Council of Cultural Heritage, offered at the Mausoleum to the Martyrs of Artemisa.

The also president of the National Committee for the Safeguarding of the Immaterial Heritage, said that "this is the wealth of each nation, hence the value of preserving it."

He recalled that in Cuba there are nine places declared World Heritage Site, as the historic centers of Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad and Viñales Valley.

Translated by Lorenzo Raúl Alonso López