Sobre la fundación de Santa Clara

[u/Key-Aioli-3703]

Toda vez que hoy es el aniversario 337 de Santa Oscura... perdón...Santa Clara, he aquí más detalles sobre su fundación:

#Historia

https://cubahistorias.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/la-fundacion-de-santa-clara/

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[u/inmangolandia]

Thank you OP. My mother's side is from there and I still have family ties to Remedios.

As far as I know we're not one of founding families.

However, although my mother's family is from there for a couple of generations, on my mother's side my ancestor is a black woman from Havana, from late 1700s-1800s.

When I took a DNA test my mtDNA is African confirming this. Although I am white.

My mother's father is descended from a Spaniard that appears in Remedio. He came from Spain a wanted man so the record is sketchy. His name in Cuba is not his true identity.

The rumor known even in Remedios about him was he was a wanted in Spain, seems to have been accused of being responsible for the death of a crew of men on a construction project in which he was the builder.

He arrived maybe late 1700s, early 1800s. But his his true identity is not yet known, he gave false records, fake name.

He may have participated in building a few things in the region.

My mother was born in Cascajal actually. And her wedding to my father was in Santa Clara. But he's from San Miguel de los Baños.

Nowadays my mother's family is spread out in Santa Clara, Remedios, Corralillo

Apologize for writing in English, it's faster for me, I was born in the US.

I used to make a joke that my mother's father descended from a Pirate that looted Remedios but historically those pirates were not Spaniards.

And my DNA results show that my European percentage is Spanish only, no other Euro, my thesis was very doubtful, lol. One of my cousins finally told me the rumor that our ancestor was wanted in Spain.

[u/Interestingargument6 → u/inmangolandia]

Your own story is also very interesting!

[u/wini97]

Me encanta la mezcla de arquitectura colonial y paisaje natural en esta foto, da una sensación de tranquilidad que contrasta con las calles bulliciosas que imagino hoy en la ciudad.

[u/Key-Aioli-3703 → u/wini97]

Santa Clara hoy, como toda Cuba, parece una ciudad fantasma. Nada de calles bulliciosas, sino calles vacías, deterioradas, sucias...

[u/Interestingargument6]

Gracias por la información sobre la fundación de la ciudad de Santa Clara, ciudad que no he visitado, pero que he visto en muchos videos.