Puerto Padre City, looks from the Inside: The Lyceum of Puerto Padre

The Lyceum of Puerto Padre, today the versatile municipal museum Fernando García Grave de Peralta, was built with funds from the Mayor's Office, contributions from settlers and popular collections, between 1927 and 1929.It is located on Yara Street, on the corner of Liberty Avenue. Very soon the center began to be a paradigm of societies, which characterized the environment of almost all the towns in the country.

During the pseudo-republican period, it served as the setting for conferences, presentations by the Municipal Music Band, the orchestra Los Perversos and plays by groups of amateur artists, who enriched the cultural and social life of Puerto Padre .

Its construction belongs to the eclectic type and harmonizes with the environment where it exists, since it is accompanied by El Quijote complex, a theater of open-air performances, the house of culture Enrique Peña, a marital palace and one of the most beautiful and singular parks of Cuba, the Independence park, for its corridors, gardens, amphitheater and Statue of Liberty.

The most attractive parts of the place, however, were the recesses of the Music Band that were held on Thursdays and Sundays, and the paths of women and men in the opposite direction through the meadow, which was mostly attended by young people.

Over time these events died, although there are many who are interested in an early return of tradition.