The mayor of Porto Santo, Roberto Silva, has requested to twin that Portuguese island and the Cuban city of Baracoa, where longstanding cultural and historic links between both countries remain.Silva made his proposal on Friday to Cuban Ambassador Eduardo Gonzalez, who visited Porto Santo as part of a month-long event that began in Lisbon on April 30 to highlight Cuban-Portuguese relations.Baracoa is also home to the Parra Cross, brought by Columbus and later blessed by Pope John Paul II on his visit to Cuba in 1998.">The mayor of Porto Santo, Roberto Silva, has requested to twin that Portuguese island and the Cuban city of Baracoa, where longstanding cultural and historic links between both countries remain.Silva made his proposal on Friday to Cuban Ambassador Eduardo Gonzalez, who visited Porto Santo as part of a month-long event that began in Lisbon on April 30 to highlight Cuban-Portuguese relations.Baracoa is also home to the Parra Cross, brought by Columbus and later blessed by Pope John Paul II on his visit to Cuba in 1998.">

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Porto Santo Wants to Twin with Baracoa

The mayor of Porto Santo, Roberto Silva, has requested to twin that Portuguese island and the Cuban city of Baracoa, where longstanding cultural and historic links between both countries remain.

Silva made his proposal on Friday to Cuban Ambassador Eduardo Gonzalez, who visited Porto Santo as part of a month-long event that began in Lisbon on April 30 to highlight Cuban-Portuguese relations.

Gonzalez was accompanied by historian Elexis Fernandez-Rubio, who was part of a delegation from Baracoa that travelled to Lisbon for this unprecedented cultural exchange between Cuba and Portugal.

The Cuban ambassador and Fernandez-Rubio attended an official ceremony at the Porto Santo City Council, where they marked the 90th anniversary of relations between the two countries (May 6).

They also referred to the upcoming 500th anniversary of the founding of Baracoa, a municipality in the eastern Cuban province of Guantanamo, in August.

Baracoa was founded in 1511 under the name of Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion de Baracoa, and on the first trip by Admiral Christopher Colombus to Cuba, he named its bay Porto Santo, after the Portuguese island.

Baracoa is also home to the Parra Cross, brought by Columbus and later blessed by Pope John Paul II on his visit to Cuba in 1998.

This is the only cross that remains from the 29 planted by Columbus in his trips to America, and constitutes an important patrimonial legacy to present and future generations.

Prensa Latina Translation Staff

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