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Roberto Abe Camil, director de Itinerarium.

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As indescribable we could label the emotions aroused by the route proposed by the Mexican project "Itinerarium, tourism and cultural experiences," an entity specialized in cultural tourism that has the mission to disseminate and promote the historical and artistic heritage of the country through this crucial economic sphere.
Its director, the young Mexican Roberto Abe Camil, a lawyer by profession, but also a researcher and a writer, has among his obsessions the love for Cuba and dreams of linking his country with the Island (which he loved since he was a child) through tourist-cultural destinations,.
Among the fascinating tourist routes there are some that pay homage to our land, as is the case of the so-called "Heroic Cuba in Mexico."
Everything starts with José Martí: walking through the Historic Center makes you think about him impacted by the cultural world he found on Mexican soil, where he wrote poetry, journalism and theater, and where he could meet in the most notorious circles of society at the time. The route of Itinerarium stops at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico, where the Apostle married, and includes the José Martí Cultural Center, at the entrance of which stands an imposing sculpture of the Master, built by Mexican sculptor Ernesto E. Tamariz. But perhaps the most overwhelming thing is the visit to the house where the most universal of Cubans lived for a few days in 1894, together with the family of Manuel Mercado.
Other spots covered by Itinerarium is some places that Fidel and his companions visited while they were preparing to come to the Island on the Granma yacht, like María Antonia González place, where Ché met the leader of the Cuban Revolution
As a Cuban reporter I had the opportunity to embark on one of the last organized routes, which offers consultancy to public and private entities in the field of cultural tourism and as an operator in useful outings for the general public. The reason was the inauguration of a nineteenth-century sugar mill in Cuernavaca, capital of the state of Morelos, an agrarian region where sugarcane has been cultivated for almost 500 years.