One of Cuba's leafiest and friendliest squares, Bayamo's central meeting point is officially known as Plaza de la Revolución. Despite its easygoing airs and secondary role as the city's best outdoor music venue (orchestras regularly play here), the square is loaded with historical significance.
In 1868 Céspedes proclaimed Cuba's independence for the first time in front of the columned Ayuntamiento . The square is surrounded by a smorgasbord of grand monuments and beautified further by big, shady trees. Facing each other in the center are a bronze statue of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, hero of the First War of Independence, and a marble bust of Perucho Figueredo, with the words of the Cuban national anthem, which Figueredo scribed, carved upon it.
