Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro's ashes were encased in a large granite boulder on Sunday in a ceremony that capped nine days of public mourning and aimed to literally set in stone the legacy of one of the 20th century's most influential characters.

Cutting a solitary figure in his four star general's uniform, Cuban President Raul Castro placed a cedar box containing his brother's cremated remains ina niche in the rock at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in southeastern Cuba.

A dark plaque engraved with the word 'Fidel' was then fixed over the niche.

Raul Castro saluted the rock, which was flanked by two honor guards in white uniform, and a 21-gun salute echoed out.


Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro's ashes were encased in a large granite boulder (pictured) on Sunday in a ceremony that capped nine days of public mourning and aimed to literally set in stone the legacy of one of the 20th century's most influential characters.

Cuban President Raul Castro (left) receiving his brother's ashes in a cedar box.





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Cuban President Raul Castro (pictured) placed the urn containing his brother's ashes inside the tomb.

We no dey sleep

Workers fixed the plaque with Castro's name on his tomb at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery, where his ashes were buried Sunday.

Cubans visit Castro's tomb at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery Sunda after his ashes were buried alongside national heroes in the cradle of his revolution.

A man saluted to Castro's tomb in the cemetery of Santa Ifigenia in Santiago de Cuba after the ceremony.

Fidel Castro's ashes began a four-day journey across Cuba on Wednesday from Havana to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago.

A small, Cuban-flag covered cedar coffin containing the remains of the 90-year-old leader was taken out of Cuba's Defense Ministry just after 7am and placed into a flower-bedecked trailer pulled by a green military jeep for the more than 500-mile (800-kilometer) procession. The ashes will be interred Sunday, ending the nine-day mourning period for the man who ruled the country for nearly 50 years.

The jeep carrying Fidel Castro's ashes is seen setting out on its journey from Havana to Santiago, the city where his revolution started.

Cuban people are crowded on the side of a highway as the military convoy, including a jeep carrying Fidel Castro's ashes, drives through Matanzas

Cubans crying.

People line the famous Malecon seaside boulevard as the motorcade carrying the ashes passes.

Group of young Cubans hold national flags and chant as they stand on the street of Havana to see the urn of Fidel Castro.

A picture taken in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood on Tuesday, November 29, shows rolls of toilet paper with Fidel Castro's face on it insidea Cuban gift shop.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov writes a message for the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro in a book of condolences at the Cuban Embassy to Russia in Moscow.

This photo, released by the North Korean official news agency, shows Kim Jong-Un writing a message to express his condolences over the death of Fidel Castro.

The state media outlet described Castro as a 'close friend and heroic ally in a joint struggle' against the U.S.

A Chinese man bows in front of wreaths of flowers lying near photos of the late Cuban President Fidel Castro after he laid flowers to pay condolence to Castro outside the Cuban embassy in Beijing on Tuesday.

Sinn Fein councillors in Ireland are seen opening a book of condolences outside City Hall in memeory of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Tuesday.

People sign the condolence book in the City Hall of Guanabacoa to pay homage to late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, in the Guanabacoa municipality in Havana.

Cuban school girls are seen lining up to sign a book of condolences and a loyalty oath for Fidel Castro in Havana on November 28.

Mélòlayé òhún?

Others came armed with historic photographs of the former leader to wave at the historic rally.

Students gathered and held Cuban flags as they waited to see the motorcade transporting Castro's remains.

Havana University student Melissa Cepero, 18, stands in a park near the Plaza of the Revolution Monday. She has the name 'Fidel' written on her face.

Shots were fired in Havana on Monday by honor guards, as a tribute to the late leader who died Friday at 90 years old.

Pls can sombody school me on what he did exactly to ve been honoured around d world like dis

Fidel Castro the great.

interesting! do Nigeria have any hero to cry for when he or she dies? definitely not yet !

Luckylife:
interesting! do Nigeria have any hero to cry for when he or she dies? definitely not yet !

Buhari

Imagine one of these rogues dying and me crying like these cubans,"i dey craised",our fidel castro died in 1998,ha! Emu ke,omo iya kashi,baba kola.oko kudi!!,enire re wale asha.............................,#i'm-cried.

mamaafrik:
Imagine one of these rogues dying and me crying like these cubans,"i dey craised",our fidel castro died in 1998,ha! Emu ke,omo iya kashi,baba kola.oko kudi!!,enire re wale asha.............................,#i'm-cried.

What do you know kid?
He is a rogue because CNN told you so? You need to start forming your own opinion.

Imagine people crying in what ought to be celebration of life. That shows the impact he created in the life of his people. Compare to Abacha who died at a lesser age, yet there were jebulation across the country's divides. Now to our today's opportunist(leaders), will u be mixed for the billions of dollers in ur account or for ur service to humanity? Think and think again.

capip120:

What do you know kid?
He is a rogue because CNN told you so? You need to start forming your own opinion.

i shake my head for those that paid ur school fees.#septictankcrew.