People rest on a sidewalk while waiting for the cortege carrying the ashes of Cuba's former President Fidel Castro to drive toward Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, December 4, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
SANTIAGO, Cuba (Reuters) - 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 in a niche in the rock at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in southeastern Cuba.
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