Huerta de San Vicente
Preserved nineteenth-century farmhouse and orchard where a celebrated poet wrote his most acclaimed plays.
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This guide to the Huerta de San Vicente in Granada follows Federico Garcia Lorca to the farmhouse his family bought and renamed for his mother in 1925, where he spent his summers from 1926 writing what he called his most tranquil theatre, finishing Blood Wedding and Yerma among the manuscripts still kept in these rooms. It traces what happened when war reached Granada in August 1936, and the decades of forensic digs at sites outside the city, in 2009, 2014 and 2016, that followed the search for him. His own family opposed the digging from the start, unconvinced that any excavation would heal old wounds.
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