From Convent to National Museum
From Convent to National Museum
By Mayra Pardillo
Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) The National Museum of the Fight against Bandits (LCB), located in the southern central city of Trinidad, declared a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988, only one of its kind on the island, houses one of the most transcendental exploits of Cuban people.
Since it was inaugurated on June 1, 1984, it has welcomed hundreds of national and foreign visitors attracted by the testimonies of the fight against the enemies of the emerging Revolution, the fight that was waged in the Escambray mountains. The former Saint Francis of Assisi Convent houses the cultural institution in charge of preserving the history of the military corps created by the Cuban Revolution to fight counter-revolutionary armed groups that operated in the central region of Cuba.