A literary passacaglia will begin today in this city the 23rd International Book Fair, after concluding its chapter in the Cuban capital, dedicated to Ecuador and writers Nersys Felipe and Rolando Rodriguez.

Combination of theater, visual arts, music, and literature, the show will be inserted into daily spaces of the city, some 100 kilometers east of Havana, the Fair's organizers stated.

After the tour, the march will end at the central La Libertad square, where the concert band of Matanzas province, theater groups, children projects, and Danza Espiral Company will perform.

General coordinator Ulises Rodriguez told Prensa Latina that the event will have an extensive agenda where the launch of volumes, lectures, talks, exhibitions and poetical recitals are included.

About 200 titles could be bought by the people who will attend the fairgrounds located at a historic center area of this city, known since 19th century as the "Athens of Cuba" due to its sustainable cultural development.

As part of the tribute to Ecuadorian writers, the Matanzas publishing house, of the homonymous western province, will launch the book "Con todos los que soy" (With All That I Am), by Antonio Preciado, and "La gramatica del deseo" (The Grammar of Desire), by Augusto Rodriguez.

Also on the list is the launch of the volume "La pluma que nos mueve" (The Pen That Moves Us), by Justino Cornejo (Ecuador, 1904-1988), writer, teacher, linguist, and folklorist, occasion in which his daughter, Marigloria, will be present.

Among other complementary activities are exhibition and sales of medicinal plants, a space for oral narration and music, and a cultural gathering of narrators and clowns.