The cultural diversity and the respect for the authenticity of a place: Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, current Camagüey

Abstract

The man like social entity, maker of his own culture contributes values to the city that recognizes as the cultural biggest fact.This way, the relationship culture - city thinks about in two slopes, from the human factor and from the inherited culture whatis in correspondence with its semantic definition.From the theoretical point of view it is recognized that the understanding of the cultural values can be carried out through thestudy of the history, of the material inherent elements to the tangible inheritance, and mainly of a deep understanding of thespiritual or intangible elements, those that are also part of the immaterial patrimony.The used methodology leaves of considering the study of some premises like the physical means, the population and the historicalspecific mark, as well as of assuming the historical investigation as indispensable to base the processes of cultural significance.They are considered key results being able to demonstrate that in the synthesis process among the elements of the materialand spiritual culture, she left determining the space configuration and the conformation of the image of the symbolic city. Inthis sense the city is characterized by dynamic relationships that give a functional, formal space as a result and of significancethat it responds to a historical concrete situation.