The King inaugurates the Machado exhibition before receiving the Ibero-American Torre del Oro award in Seville

For the exhibition, there has also been the rehabilitation of part of the Artillery Factorywhich will be dedicated to major events in the city.

organized up to next December 22 in Sevillebefore traveling through Burgos and Madrid, the exhibition presents many hitherto unpublished documents, such as Antonio Machado’s poem ‘The Old Women of Castilla’, discovered last year.

The viewer will also see a reproduction of the Natural History Cabinet which the grandfather of poets, Antonio Machado Núñez, created at the University of Seville, of which he was rector. Also included are photos of Fernando Giner de los Ríos, director of the Free Educational Institution, where the brothers studied at the express wish of their grandfather.

As a curiosity, it is exposed a copy of the official letter from the secretary of the Royal Academy informing Antonio Machado of his choice. The document is signed by Damaso Alonso and is from 1927. You can also see a folio of Antonio Machado’s entrance speech in the RAE, an institution in which the Sevillian poet never entered because the event was postponed and finally was not held due to at the outbreak of the Civil War. Also shown Manuel Machado’s entry document to the Royal Academy, which was in San Sebastián in 1938 due to the conflict.

Among the attendees, the presence of the President of the Government of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno; the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo García; the mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz; the secretary of the PSOE-A, Juan Espadas; the director of the Royal Sevillian Academy of Good Letters, Pablo Gutiérrez-Alviz; the president of the Unicaja Foundation, José M. Domínguez; the director of the Burgense Academy, René Payo; and the Buenas Letras academics Joaquín Caro Romero, Ignacio Camacho, Enriqueta Vila, Rogelio Reyes Cano, Ramón María Serrera and José Antonio Gómez Marín, among others.