Over 70,000 people visit Fidel Castro's tomb in a month

About 70,000 people have visited Cuban leader Fidel Castro`s tomb in the city of Santiago de Cuba over the past month since his interment

The large gray stone at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery, marked simply "Fidel" under which Castro`s ashes have rested since December 4, is visited by an average of 2,000 Cubans and foreigners daily cemetery administrator Yudis Garcia told on Saturday Jan 07,2017

Also visiting Castro`s tomb have been international dignitaries and personalities, including "a Saudi Arabian prince who promised not to cut his beard until he came to the tomb"

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who attended the intimate interment ceremony for the Cuban leader, wrote in the tomb`s registry book that he had come to the site "with revolutionary fervour... to pay tribute to the Father of all revolutionaries of Our Americas and the world".

After being honoured for two days here, Castro`s ashes were transported by caravan to Santiago de Cuba along the same -- albeit reversed -- route that Castro had taken from that city to Havana after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

Castro`s tomb is located beside that of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti.

Note

Fidel Castro died aged 90 on friday nov 25,2016