Casa Gerald Brenan
Restored writer's residence with a citrus garden, once a gathering place for literary and film celebrities.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Casa Gerald Brenan in Málaga opens on a photograph inside the house: Ernest Hemingway sprawled in a wicker chair under the orange trees one afternoon in the 1950s, waiting for lunch with his host. It follows English writer Gerald Brenan, who bought this house in 1935, fled it during the Spanish Civil War, and returned in 1950 with his wife, the poet Gamel Woolsey, to turn the garden into an open house for wanderers from Bloomsbury, from Bertrand Russell's circle, and from the film world. You'll hear about the record player Brenan carried across Spain by suitcase and the typewriter on which he wrote his history of Spain, still inside. Look for the citrus trees that once shaded all those long evenings.
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