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The farmhouse and the Daimuz Bajo estate, in the Valderrubio valley but belonging to the municipality of Pinos Puente, are linked to Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca by two apparently contradictory facts: first, it was the place where the definitive enrichment of his father took place, and, second, the almost sacred territory where the “first artistic amazement” that moved the future poet<\/strong> took place and where his youthful creative sensibility unfolded.<\/p>\n

There, in that idyllic setting populated by lush poplar groves, the poet spent the best years of his childhood and youth: among its poplar groves and next to the fountains and riverbanks he tried his first poetic attempts that would later form part of volumes such as Book of Poems<\/em><\/a>, Songs<\/em> <\/a>and Suites<\/em> <\/a>and, after some time, in other mature works such as Divan del Tamarit<\/em><\/a>, and in dramatic works such as Blood Wedding<\/em><\/a> or The House of Bernarda Alba<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

“My first emotions are linked to the land and the work in the fields. That is why there is in my life an agricultural complex, as psychoanalysts would call it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Daimuz (“farmhouse of the cave” according to the Arabic derivation) is formed by farmlands located near the confluence of the river Cubillas and Acequia Grande that extend around the farmhouse and beyond. The building, which has undergone numerous transformations,<\/strong> consists of a courtyard of about 400 square meters that still retains industrial remains of its last use for tobacco processing. The farm, located on the road to L\u00e1char, just two kilometers from Valderrubio, and which is reached by a lane after passing a watercourse, was acquired by Don Federico Garc\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> in 1895. At present the farm, which belongs to the municipality of Pinos Puente, covers only 16 hectares of farmland and its future envisages more cultural than agricultural use and can be visited aboard a tourist train chartered by the City Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Federico<\/a>
Federico Lorca and his siblings at a summer residence in the Vega de Granada. \/ Photo: FGL Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Federico Garc\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez was among the first in the village to sell the Fuente Vaqueros<\/a> fields to buy non-irrigated land. \u201cHe bought a lot in a dry area<\/em> that gave nothing, but was next to the Cubillas River and the Acequia Grande. He made an irrigation plan (…). He and a Daniel turned that dry area <\/em> into the beautiful farmhouse of Daimuz Bajo with which my father earned a lot of money”. The sale of the property allowed him to invest in projects that then seemed risky, such as the sugar beet industry, recounts Isabel Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Garc\u00eda Lorca family moved their residence to Valderrubio<\/a> between 1906 and 1907 so that the father could better attend to his business, but only stayed for two years, until 1908, when they all moved to their first home in Granada, on the Acera del Darro<\/a>. The move to Granada did not take their rural fondness away from them. Every summer the family went to Valderrubio, after the feast of Corpus Christi, to participate in the threshing and other agricultural work. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The relationship of Federico and Francisco<\/a> with Daimuz has the flavor of primal experiences. Francisco writes: “The first memories of my life are of Daimuz, as well as the first image I keep of myself, Federico and my parents, which has been relived so many times later that I can still see it clearly now”.<\/p>\n

Federico’s youthful experiences are also related to Daimuz, solid memories that he never got rid of and that he used to bring up, as an adult, in the most unexpected places and circumstances. On March 10, 1934, in an interview with the journalist Jos\u00e9 R. Luna, of the magazine Cr\u00edtica<\/em> of Buenos Aires, Lorca reveals that it was in Daimuz where he experienced his first “artistic amazement”: “I love the land. I feel linked to it in all my emotions. My most distant memories as a child have a taste of the land. The bugs of the earth, the animals, the peasants, have suggestions that reach very few. I capture them now with the same spirit of my childhood years. Otherwise, I would not have been able to write Blood Wedding<\/em>. This love for the land made me realize my first artistic expression (…). It was around 1906. My land, a land of farmers. It had always been ploughed by the old wooden ploughs, which barely scratched the surface. And in that year some farmers acquired the new Bravant ploughs – the name has remained forever in my memory – which had been awarded for their efficiency at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. I, a curious child, followed the vigorous plough of my house all over the field. Once the plow stopped. They had stumbled over something solid. A second later, the shiny steel blade pulled a Roman mosaic out of the earth. It had an inscription that I do not remember now, although I do not know why the name of the shepherds Daphnis and Chloe comes to my memory (…). That, my first artistic amazement, is linked to the earth. The names Daphnis and Chloe also have the flavor of earth and love. My first emotions are linked to the land and to the work in the fields. That is why there is in my life an agricultural complex, as psychoanalysts would call it”. Although his brother Francisco doubts the finding, there is evidence of the appearance of Roman coins and pottery remains in the farmhouse lands.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8942,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[119],"ruta":[120],"class_list":["post-8941","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-indispensable","ruta-route-of-la-vega"],"trid":"163","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/8941"}],"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\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}