Granada, the city of Lorca

Granada has big attractions quantity: history, art, gastronomy … But if there is something that is joined to the history of Granada it is undoubtedly the figure of Federico García Lorca, one of the poets most emphasized from the history of our literature.

In the whole province we can find places and museums lorquiano that he is worth visiting to know of deeper form the life and the work of this poet and playwright, one of the most important of the history of our literature.

We can begin the trip knowing the place that saw Lorca being born: Source Jeans. In this people placed to approximately 20 kilometers of the capital, we will find the native house of Lorca, which is a museum at present. The room in which the poet was born has survived intact (we even can see his birth certificate on a mesita). Also, there are manuscripts, photos, books, sketches of sets and suits that were used in his stage plays … Also, every year usually receives traveling exhibitions on Lorca.

In his youth, it covered Valderrubio and Granada. Valderrubio is to 4 kilometers, in that there is a small museum with some images that reflect the Lorca stay in the people, along his infancy and his adolescence.

Some of his stage plays were inspired in some of the corners of this people, which it is worth covering to enjoy his rinconcitos. In cardinal Granada it is worth following the Route of Lorca, organized by the local tourist information office, which will lead us to visiting the church of Santa Maria, CArmen of the Martyrs or the Alhambra.

In Granda there is also the farm in which veraneaba the family of the poet between 1926 and 1936, the Garden of San Vicente, who at present is integrda in the Park García Lorca and in the one that has installed a center of studies to herself lorquianos.

Let's prune acabr the trip in Afacar and Víznar, where it finished also the life of the poet in 1936, year in which shot and buried in a common grave. In Alfacar there is a park in memory of García Lorca, with a square in which there is a wall with tiles in which some fragments of his poems can be read.

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