Granada is one of the nerve centers of the celebration of the World Poetry Day Being one of the Unesco literature citiesthe first Spanish to be designated from a list in which Barcelona is also. The city has been the cradle and host locality of different masters of literature, among which Federico García Lorca stands out, who lived stages of his maturity and part of his last time and of it there are traces today.
SAN VICENTE HUERTA
This house was acquired in 1925 by the poet’s father, who changed his name in honor of his wife, Vicenta. It is currently in Federico García Lorca’s park and It is house-museo after being acquired by the City Council in 1985 To the heirs.
This was the family’s summer house and Federico García Lorca He wrote part of his important works as Yerma, Blood weddings or the Gypsy Romanceroamong others that date between 1926 and 1936. In fact, from here it was where he escaped after the uprising to the House of the Rosales where on the night of August 9, 1936 he would be arrested and that would lead to his death.
From there he escaped after the uprising to the Casa de los Rosales. The Night of August 9, 1936later it would be arrested and shot a few days later. In 1975, the Huerta de San Vicente was about to be demolished by urban planning, but was saved thanks to the protests of neighbors of Granada in 1976.
Carmen de la Antequeruela
It was the composer’s house Manuel de Falla In Granada, located in the Alhambra enclosure, between 1922 and 1939 and was a usual visiting place of Federico García Lorca, being one of the secret centers of cultural life between the 20s and 30s of the twentieth century in Europe.
From here the inspiration for the Cante Jondo Poem In 1921 and for the “Andalusian Primitive Cante” contest, but also for the puppet function that he devised next to the Failure of Magi in 1923 that occurred in the family home of Lorca.
This was converted into a museum in 1962 with a Hyperrealism style who has recreated the same atmosphere in which the composer lived, including the humidity and disorder of the drawers, which would be the same thing that Federico García Lorca’s eyes saw in his visits.
ALJIBES SQUARE
The linking of this place in Granada, founded by the Christians after the conquest of the city, is based on having been the place chosen for the Cante Jondo Contest In 1922 of which the poet was one of his precursors. A song that was understood as a germ of the Spanish lyric by the artists of the gathering of El Rinocillo that met at the Alameda Café.
Federico García Lorca Center
This place has the footsteps of Federico García Lorca in Granada for being the place where documents and original works are guarded, and being a cultural institution aimed at research around its life and work and the diffusion of this, and maintain its legacy from the foundation that bears his name.
It was inaugurated in July 2015 being an avant -garde building created by Héctor Mendoza, Mónica Juvera, Mara departure and Boris Bezan And it has an auditorium, exhibition halls, offices and a library equipped with an battleship camera where original material of the Granada poet is saved.
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