From the top, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna contemplates the city of Santa Clara. His bronze figure stands out in the Sculpture Complex that keeps his remains, as a kind of sleepless vigilant that escorts his children, the same ones that accompanied him in the important battle that liberated the people of Santa Clara and speeded up the freedom of Cuba with the triumph of the Revolution.
In the center of the city, you can still see, in the Hotel Santa Clara Libre, the holes of the bullets that hit against the green concrete ribbon that, like a large rectangle, breaks with the architecture of the city.
As a witness of the feat, the Action against the Armored Train Museum-Site shows the traces of the derailment, a military feat that allowed the victory of the rebel troops and that today is a site visited by hundreds of visitors.
Further on, a few blocks away, the Children's Che, by sculptor Casto Solano, is located at the entrance of the Provincial Party Committee in Villa Clara. A flower is always placed before the feet of the Guerrilla.
In the Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas, Che Guevara established his Commandery. There, almost 65 years ago, he was awarded the degree of Doctor honoris causa in Pedagogy.
In his investiture speech he called to paint the house of higher studies in black and mulatto, to bathe it with the people, because "the University must be flexible, paint itself in black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or be left without doors, and the people will break it and paint the University with the colors they see fit."
Consequently, this University has become one of the most multidisciplinary in the country, and every October 8, its professors and students, painted in the colors of the people, walk along Che Guevara's route.
When Ernesto Guevara began to industrialize the country, Santa Clara hosted the large factories that still today constitute the manufacturing locomotive of the province of Villa Clara.
However, from the very first moment, he was united to this city by a relationship as intimate as it was transcendental: love.
He shared his life with a Santa Clara woman, Aleida March, and from that relationship four children were born: Aleida, Camilo, Celia and Ernesto.
Che Guevara's ties with the children of this land were fused forever when on October 17, 1997, the people received his mortal remains to keep them forever in Santa Clara, in the heart of Cuba.
