Manuel de Falla House Museum

This guide to the Manuel de Falla House Museum in Granada follows the composer at his desk in the walled carmen he shared with his sister below the Alhambra, adapting a chapter of Don Quixote into a puppet opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, commissioned years earlier by a wealthy patron. It traces how he found the craftsman he needed through a Granada cafe circle that also included a young Federico Garcia Lorca, and a puppet show staged one January evening that changed his mind. The desk where he worked still sits inside, and the walled garden still looks down over the same rooftops.