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The Garc\u00eda Lorca family were regular summer visitors to Lanjar\u00f3n. From 1924 until 1935, Federico Garc\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> and siblings Federico, Francisco, Concha and Isabel accompanied their mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero<\/a>, affected by hepatic colic, to the Hotel Espa\u00f1a, the most luxurious of all accommodations in the Alpujarra, with the purpose of taking the waters in the Lanjar\u00f3n Spa<\/a> and relieve her ailment.<\/p>\n

They turned the two-week summer stays in the town that opened “the gates of the Alpujarra”<\/a> into a festive and healthy habit that allowed them to get to know the town and its picturesque landscapes and gradually enter the wild and fascinating region. Lorca took advantage of the tranquility of Lanjar\u00f3n to write poems and answer the numerous letters from friends to whom he highly recommended the virtues of the region.<\/p>\n

\"Federico<\/a>
Federico in Lanjar\u00f3n in 1927 at the Ca\u00f1os Fountain. \/ Photo: FGL Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Federico also wrote some of his best-known poems at the hotel. The work linked to Lanjar\u00f3n includes at least two compositions from the Gypsy Ballads<\/em><\/a> (on which he had been working since 1924 but which did not appear published until 1928 in Occidente magazine<\/em>), those entitled Brawl\u00a0<\/em>or Brawl of youngsters<\/em>, according to different versions, and The Unfaithful Wife<\/em>, a poem supposedly inspired by a real case he met in the Alpujarra. In addition, he signed numerous drawings belonging to a collection for the Catalan art critic Sebasti\u00e1n Gasch<\/a>, a friend of Dal\u00ed and contributor to the magazine L’Amics de les Arts<\/em>. Much of the correspondence bears the letterhead of the hotel in which Bernab\u00e9 Pag\u00e9s Hern\u00e1ndez is listed as owner and Francisco \u00c1lvarez as director.<\/p>\n

“In the hotels they play with clothes, the ladies read Trifles<\/em>, by Coloma, and nobody looks at the mountains, prodigious with marine reflections.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isabel Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a> has described in her memoirs the routine of the Alpujarra vacations. The family, after accompanying the mother to the spa, used to return to the hotel to have a breakfast of “memorable fritters”, the “best I have ever eaten in my life”. Don Federico stayed at the hotel reading the papers. Then, back to the spa and after lunch, excursions in the surrounding area, the longest in donkey trains.<\/p>\n

In a postcard dated July 1926 addressed to Antonio de Luna (published by the researcher Juan Gonz\u00e1lez Blasco) Lorca recreates the atmosphere of the establishment: “Lanjar\u00f3n would have a delicious landscape and light if it were not far from the sea. I see the saline mists and I get sad because it is the same as seeing a tree full of inaccessible fruit. Anyway, the chestnut grove has a very original style. In the hotels they play with clothes, the ladies read Trifles<\/em>, by Coloma, and nobody looks at the mountains, prodigious with marine reflections. Everything is as if ruled by a nun. To save the spa, it would be necessary to organize a revolution of the bare-knuckled women. Farewell. A hug from Federico (Hotel Espa\u00f1a)”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8755,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[117],"ruta":[121],"class_list":["post-8754","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-important","ruta-route-alpujarra"],"trid":"198","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/8754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lugar"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=8754"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=8754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}