The day before, the Mayor’s Office of Managua and Ruben Dario National Theater, held a cultural gala that featured the presentation of the Ballet Folklorico Quetzalnahualt and Camerata Bach, with music alluding to the songs of renowned Nicaraguan artists.

Composers such as Otto de la Rocha, Ervin Kruger and Tino Lopez Guerra, who sang to Managua and left an important musical legacy, said Ramon Rodriguez, co-director of the Instituto de las Culturas de Pueblos y Juventudes.

Managua is now sporting spectacular streets, squares, parks, a historic center, tourist centers that attract families, because now Managua, after so many earthquakes we have gone through, the war of liberation, destroyed buildings, the Revolution made it be reborn, said, for his part, the architect Luis Morales.

The also co-secretary of Creative, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Economy of the presidency, said that in 1979 Managua’s downton was in ruins; however, now, 46 years later, it has other spaces never seen before and is projected as the most beautiful city of the Central American country.

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