Memoria y cubanidad, entre pasado y futuro. El proyecto Oriental Cuba Small Historical Centres

The recovery of the urban, architectural, and cultural memory of small patrimonial centres, suspended between the Spanish colonial heritage of the Leyes de Indias and the symbolic one of the Cuban Revolution, is the main objective of the project “OCSHC - Oriental Cuba Small Historical Centres: an integrated strategy for the intelligent recovery and enhancement of the minor historical centres of the eastern provinces of Cuba”. The project, funded by the AICS Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, was born from a joint initiative between the Oficina del Conservador de la Ciudad of Santiago de Cuba the Faculty of Construction of the Universidad de Oriente and the Department of Architecture of Roma Tre University. OCSHC provides for the definition of an integrated strategy for the construction of a network of small patrimonial towns in the provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Holguín y Guantánamo, within the framework of a sustainable and solidarity development scenario based on the recovery and enhancement of the historical heritage urban and the places of culture and local communities.