{"id":8848,"date":"2019-12-16T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/lugar\/canar-and-carataunas\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T10:51:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:51:45","slug":"canar-and-carataunas","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/canar-and-carataunas\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e1\u00f1ar and Carataunas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca and the composer Manuel de Falla<\/a>, accompanied by the future professors Jos\u00e9 Manuel Segura and Antonio de Luna, plus the lawyer Rafael Aguado Mart\u00edn-Montijano, owner of the Los Montijanos Estate, took advantage of their stay in \u00d3rgiva in early 1926 to visit other sites.<\/p>\n

They examined the Cueva de Sortes, a natural hollow located on a limestone block of earth used by shepherds as a shelter. The cave, which can still be visited, is supposedly related to the composition of Garc\u00eda Lorca’s romance The Unfaithful Wife<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Federico, impressed by the beauty of the people of the Alpujarra, wrote: “There are of course two perfectly defined races. The Nordic, Galician, Asturian, etc., and the Moorish, preserved purely. People with blue eyes and people with eyes… indescribable.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the most repeated version, being all gathered at dinner time at Los Montijanos, they summoned the son of the guard, an amateur guitarist who interpreted by a sole\u00e1 the first verses of a popular romance that circulated then: “Que yo me la llev\u00e9 al r\u00edo, \/ creyendo que era mozuela, \/ pero ten\u00eda marido” (I took her to the river, \/ believing that she was a young girl,\/ but she had a husband). Federico, vividly impressed, wrote down the verses and later turned them into the romance of The Unfaithful Wife<\/em> from Gypsy Ballads<\/em><\/a>, which appeared published in 1928 in\u00a0Occidente magazine<\/em>. The boy is linked to a picturesque inhabitant of the Luck Cave, Ram\u00f3n Naranjo Carmona, nicknamed El Guajiras<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Federico<\/a>
Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca strolling through the Alpujarra \/ Photo: FGL Foundation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a letter from Federico to his brother Francisco<\/a>, in February 1926, still impressed by the visit, he writes: “The human types are of an impressive beauty. I shall never forget the village of C\u00e1\u00f1ar (the highest in Spain) full of singing washerwomen and somber shepherds. Nothing new literary. There are of course two perfectly defined races. The Nordic, Galician, Asturian, etc., and the purely preserved Moorish. People with blue eyes and people with… indescribable eyes. I saw a queen of Sheba shelling corn on a bitumen-colored and violet wall, and I saw a child king disguised as a barber’s son. There are no communications, they are fine hospitable and, except the town clerks, have no notion of the beauty of the country”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8772,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[118],"ruta":[121],"class_list":["post-8848","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-complementary","ruta-route-alpujarra"],"trid":"36696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/8848"}],"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\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=8848"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=8848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}