History.
Before XIX century, this place was known as Pozo de Gracia, because there was a fertile Fountain where some citizens took wáter from it.
Thanks to the initiative of José Nicolás Montejo, councilman of the city council, who made the request to demolish three houses on May 6th, 1825, because “it’s convenient to from a square for a greater decorum, comfort and brazenness of the Carmen Church that it is building”, as he said in his petition to the Chapter. After the space was opened, it was called as “Street of the Step” or Carmen Square.
This urban place is considered as the most relevant of Camagüey city… the whole architectural that forms its surrounding show the architecture.