TY - JOUR KW - cultural heritage KW - cultural identity KW - identidad cultural KW - identidade cultural KW - Multiculturalism - Camagüey (Cuba) KW - Multiculturalismo - Camagüey (Cuba) KW - patrimonio cultural KW - patrimonio cultural KW - autenticidad KW - autenticidade KW - Authenticity KW - diversidad KW - diversidade KW - diversity KW - Identidad KW - identidade KW - identity KW - immaterial patrimony KW - patrimonio inmaterial KW - Patrimônio imaterial AU - Mabel Chaos Yeras AB - The man like social entity, maker of his own culture contributes values to the city that recognizes as the cultural biggest fact. This way, the relationship culture - city thinks about in two slopes, from the human factor and from the inherited culture what is in correspondence with its semantic definition. From the theoretical point of view it is recognized that the understanding of the cultural values can be carried out through the study of the history, of the material inherent elements to the tangible inheritance, and mainly of a deep understanding of the spiritual or intangible elements, those that are also part of the immaterial patrimony. The used methodology leaves of considering the study of some premises like the physical means, the population and the historical specific mark, as well as of assuming the historical investigation as indispensable to base the processes of cultural significance. They are considered key results being able to demonstrate that in the synthesis process among the elements of the material and spiritual culture, she left determining the space configuration and the conformation of the image of the symbolic city. In this sense the city is characterized by dynamic relationships that give a functional, formal space as a result and of significance that it responds to a historical concrete situation. M1 - 2 N2 - The man like social entity, maker of his own culture contributes values to the city that recognizes as the cultural biggest fact. This way, the relationship culture - city thinks about in two slopes, from the human factor and from the inherited culture what is in correspondence with its semantic definition. From the theoretical point of view it is recognized that the understanding of the cultural values can be carried out through the study of the history, of the material inherent elements to the tangible inheritance, and mainly of a deep understanding of the spiritual or intangible elements, those that are also part of the immaterial patrimony. The used methodology leaves of considering the study of some premises like the physical means, the population and the historical specific mark, as well as of assuming the historical investigation as indispensable to base the processes of cultural significance. They are considered key results being able to demonstrate that in the synthesis process among the elements of the material and spiritual culture, she left determining the space configuration and the conformation of the image of the symbolic city. In this sense the city is characterized by dynamic relationships that give a functional, formal space as a result and of significance that it responds to a historical concrete situation. SP - 276 EP - 287 TI - La diversidad cultural y el respeto por la autenticidad de un sitio: Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, actual Camagüey UR - http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1657-97632011000200011&lang=es VL - 24 SN - 2011-9003 ER -