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The attractiveness of the Alpujarra and its inhabitants seduced Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca very early on. Although there is no documented evidence, the poet’s travels through the region began in his formative years. The earliest graphic testimony corresponds to 1918: Federico, wearing a cap, appears on the roof of the bus that traveled the route between Granada and Motril through \u00d3rgiva, one of the capitals of the Alpujarra region. The same 20-year-old Federico, perhaps on the same excursion, appears in another image taken, according to the handwritten signature, in \u00d3rgiva next to a tree that he identifies as an orange tree. On the back of the photo, addressed to his family, he writes: “Segura [Jos\u00e9 Manuel Segura Soriano] wanted to photograph me with a flat hat and shotgun. Naranjo located at an altitude of 2,000 meters. From here I can see Soport\u00fajar, L\u00e1ujar, Vallacar [sic<\/em>] and C\u00e1\u00f1ar. I hear the singing of four rivers tumbling down to the olive trees of the Vega de \u00d3rgiva.”<\/p>\n

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Federico (in profile, wearing a hat, looking to the left) on the roof of the \u00d3rgiva bus. \/ Photo: Fundaci\u00f3n FGL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lorca transmitted to his friends his wonder at the Alpujarra. In the summer of 1922, he proposed to Manuel de Falla<\/a> to organize puppet shows in the Alpujarra: “I am enthusiastic about the project of traveling to the Alpujarra. You know how much I want to make some Cristobical [sic<\/em>] full of Andalusian emotion and exquisite popular sentiment […]. If we go to the Alpujarra, we will also have to take with us some Moorish affair, which could be that of Aben-Humeya.”<\/p>\n

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Image of Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca in \u00d3rgiva, in the Alpujarra \/ Photo: FGL Foundation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The excursion of Falla and Lorca and a group of friends to the Alpujarra had to wait until the beginning of January 1926, coinciding with the Christmas holidays. Jos\u00e9 Manuel Segura Soriano, professor of International Law; the diplomat and professor Antonio de Luna, and the lawyer Rafael Aguado Mart\u00edn-Montijano traveled with them. They arrived in \u00d3rgiva in a luxurious convertible that everyone called in French landeau<\/em>, that is, a vehicle with a body similar to the land\u00f3, the old horse-drawn carriage. Its owner was Jos\u00e9 de Luna, lawyer, liberal politician and father of Antonio.<\/p>\n

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