{"id":8860,"date":"2021-08-31T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/lugar\/guadix-la-calahorra-and-purullena\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T16:54:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:54:37","slug":"guadix-la-calahorra-and-purullena","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/guadix-la-calahorra-and-purullena\/","title":{"rendered":"Guadix, La Calahorra and Purullena"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Granada region of Guadix is part of the itinerary that Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, Manuel de Falla<\/a> and some of his friends traveled between 1926 and 1928. The interest of the egregious visitors was threefold. On the one hand, the anthropological and historical magnetism that the region projected towards the group of artists and intellectuals; secondly, Manuel Falla’s determination to search for songs and musical themes still alive in popular memory, and, finally, to trace the memory of Pedro Antonio de Alarc\u00f3n in whom Falla had been inspired to compose the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat<\/em> (premiered in 1919) and, before that, a first version entitled The Magistrate and the Miller\u2019s Wife<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Federico<\/a>
Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca (first from the left) on a trip to Guadix with Manuel de Falla (second from the right) and other friends \/ Photo: FGL Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were at least two visits, in 1926 and 1928. The first, of only one day’s duration, but of intense memory, was in the month of February, a few weeks after the excursion to the Alpujarra<\/a> in the New Year of 1926. The illustrious travelers were attracted to all the villages of the region, particularly La Calahorra, Guadix and Purullena. “An unforgettable day,” Federico writes enthusiastically to his brother Francisco<\/a> a few weeks later.<\/p>\n

The second visit, in January 1928, focused on Guadix and Purullena. Falla had been alerted to the poor condition of a valuable harpsichord, one of the first to be built in Spain, which lay abandoned in a basement of the Guadix Cathedral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The Renaissance [La Calahorra] castle with the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada is marvelous. Its builder, the Marquis of Zenete, was about to marry Lucrezia Borgia. On the way back we passed through the episcopal and melancholic city of Guadix. Falla was enthusiastic. Passing through the street of Santa Maria de la Cabeza, in the purest Spanish style, we saw, almost intact, the house of the Zagal, a Moorish style. Spain is inexhaustible in spite of the Americans who are taking it away little by little”. A few days later he reiterates his emotion to Melchor Fern\u00e1ndez Almagro<\/a> and sends him a photo of the castle of La Calahorra. “We were in La Calahorra. There I send you that splendid photo of the castle,” he writes.<\/p>\n

During the visit, Falla even performed a fragment of a piano version of The Magistrate and the Miller\u2019s Wife<\/em>, the mimic farce composed ten years earlier (between 1916 and 1917) with script by Gregorio Mart\u00ednez Sierra based on the novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarc\u00f3n (Guadix, 1833-Madrid, 1891) The Three-Corenered Hat<\/em>: “The day after tomorrow we go to the mill of the Magistrate and the Miller\u2019s Wife located in Guadix, where our Falla will play the score on the piano. It will be a fun party,” he writes to the poet Gerardo Diego.<\/p>\n

The expedition was led by Federico and Falla together with two of the friends who accompanied them on the visit to the Alpujarra, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Segura and Antonio Luna. They were joined by the jurist and politician Manuel Torres L\u00f3pez and the lawyer and later professor Alfonso Garc\u00eda-Valdecasas<\/a>. The six friends traveled in the Garc\u00eda Lorca family’s Fiat.<\/p>\n

\"Alfonso<\/a>
Alfonso Garc\u00eda-Valdecasas, Jos\u00e9 Segura, Rafael Aguado, Garc\u00eda Lorca and Falla in Purullena, on the way to Guadix.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first stop was the castle of La Calahorra<\/a>, a majestic pioneering construction of Spanish military architecture built on top of an earlier Arab one between 1509 and 1512. At an altitude of 1,250 meters, the castle crowns a hill of the former Marquisate of Cenete. Antonio Luna photographed the hikers in the inner courtyard of the fortress.<\/p>\n

The second visit, in January 1928, focused on Guadix and Purullena<\/a>. Falla had been alerted to the poor condition of a valuable harpsichord, one of the first to be built in Spain, which lay abandoned in a basement of Guadix Cathedral.<\/p>\n

They then visited the remains of the house of El Zagal, the penultimate king of the Nasrid dynasty of Granada. The last part of the visit, already on the way to Granada, was Purullena and the surroundings of the caves where they returned to pose for Antonio Luna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8863,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[117],"ruta":[123],"class_list":["post-8860","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-important","ruta-route-of-guadix"],"trid":"37096","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/8860"}],"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\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}