Iron Road

Up this year at its 160 th anniversary of the railway or "Iron Road" from Puerto Principe to Nuevitas (1). On this occasion, we pay tribute to the feat that certainly marked a turning point for communications, economics, society and culture of Camagüey to retrace a few pages of his long journey through the history. Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros, The Villager, was who first thought of using the modern means of transportation to his homeland, Puerto Príncipe, paying with their money the initial studies on the ground, to undertake at your request, important and renowned engineers in to determine the possibility of the project.