La Vega, cultural City

By: Grecheen Acosta

You could say that the cultural tradition of La Vega has been taking place since the foundation of it in 1494. Since then we can highlight the writings of Fray Ramon Pane, creating the first bishopric in 1511, the first painting of America was held in La Vega by a painter who depicted on canvas the Battle of Santo Cerro and painting of the Virgin of La Antigua is the remote that has been brought to La Vega.

With the passage of time more joined: establishment of the first schools, building society The Progressive (1878), Libraries, Band musicians (1882), The Humane Society, the first newspaper The Effort (1880), The Railway Vega-Sanchez (1887), Journal The News (1889), newspaper El Pueblo (1892), magazine Ideal (1896), Teatro La Progressive (1910).

In addition to the creations and constructions of cultural spaces, and the emergence of decades of newspapers and magazines, at the time La Vega was growing a pleya of intellectuals who gathered in what they called Don Tertulias Fed, around the Parque Duarte . There came together great figures of the cultural history of vegan people including: Manuel Ubaldo Gomez, Elias Brache, Arismendi Robiou, Juan Gasso Gasso, Pablo de la Mota, Zoilo Garcia, Manuel Morillo King, Hermogenes García, José Martí, Carlos María Sanchez, Federico Basilis, among others.

With the construction of the Teatro La Progressive and with the rise of the gatherings of Federico García Godoy, in 1915 the First Floral Games are held in this scenario. With this cultural-intellectual activity, such social impact since the adjective takes hold Culta City was created.

Vegan historian, Cesar Arturo Abreu says that since emerged Tertulias, already heard talk of La Vega as Culta city, however with the Floral Games is a cycle of this movement is closed and that is when the title is secured Culta for this city.

With the transformations that the current world, so changes in social settings are. La Vega, has seen the cultural movement in all its manifestations. Although there is no certain spaces that were at the time, we underline the cultural news vegan.

It is home to the shrine of the patron of the patron saint of the Dominican people La Virgen de las Mercedes, has the oldest carnival in the country, declared Folk Heritage of the nation, besides the band of musicians from more ancient of the country (founded in 1882) , Radio Santa María and radio schools, vegan Institute of Culture (since 1979), El Tamarindo Gold award. There are three universities (UCATECI, UNPHU, UASD), hundreds of schools and colleges, School of Fine Arts, House of Culture , Guido Despradel Municipal Library, The Progressive, Armchair Theatre, Various media (radio and television), Newspaper La Vega News, SocialSports Magazine. Artists, writers and historians as: Cesar Arturo Abreu, Hugo Estrella, José Lantigua "Bule" Ramón González Hardy, Reynolds Pérez, Mercedes Cosme de Gonell, Carlos Burgos Acosta, Fausto Mota, Pedro Valdez, Jose Marble, Frank Moya Pons, among other. In the latest, La Vega has a Youth Symphony Orchestra, DOSA Theatre, with recent artists like Santy Rodríguez, Raúl Morilla, Khilsys García, Carlos Regalado, Melvin Mars, Mars Carlos "Cayoya" among others. Similarly, companies, institutions, service industries, etc.

Similarly we have to mention the more recent cultural work ROUTE OF FAITH. This project involves several areas of the city that are offered as tourist attractions: Park Old Vega, La Santa Cruz in Santo Cerro and Sacred Museum, these works opened so far, several that are included in this route.