Surrounded by trees and shrubs, the Parque Aracelio Iglesias was constructed to pay tribute to Arcelio Iglesias (1901-1948). Arcelio Iglesias was the union leader of the Cuban dockworkers that was shot to death by four bullets at his back, fired from the guns of the hired assasins of the government of Carlos Prío Socarrás in 1948.

Except the monument that was built in memory of Arcelio Iglesias, there are two monuments more in the park: the monument, erected in honour of the Cuban internationalist brigade that participated in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 and the Makarios statue. On the former monument you will read a verse from the poem Elegía Segunda (Second Elegy) of the Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez, dedicated to the Cuban writer and journalist Pablo de la Torriente Brau: “Me quedaré en España, compañero/me dijiste con gesto enamorado./Y al fin sin tu edificio tronante de guerrero/en la hierba de España te has quedado (I will stay in Spain, partner/you said with a gesture of love./And finally without your thundering building of warrior/in the grass of Spain you have stayed)”. This poem was written by the poet when he heard the death of his friend Ramón Sijé, and dedicated it to his other loyal friend Pablo de la Torriente Brau in 1937 that was shot down by machine-gun blasts on the outskirts of Majadahonda in 1936. He was 35 years old, when he was killed. His dead body was not discovered under the snow for three days. Miguel Hernández died in the infirmary of the Alicante prison in 1942, aged 31.The bronze statue of Makarios, the archbishop and the first president of Cyprus, was placed in 2005 as a symbol of solidarity between the two countries. It is the work of Nikkolaos Kotzamanig.