{"id":9000,"date":"2018-12-03T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/lugar\/lorcas-family-home-in-valderrubios-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:31:51","slug":"lorcas-family-home-in-acera-del-darro","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/lorcas-family-home-in-acera-del-darro\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorca\u2019s family home in Acera del Darro"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first home of the Lorca family in Granada is located at the current number 50 Acera del Darro. Although the building has undergone numerous transformations, it still retains traces of the house where the family moved from Valderrubio<\/a> in 1908 and where they remained until 1917. There Isabel Garc\u00eda Lorca was born and Federico spent part of his adolescence.<\/p>\n

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The entire Garc\u00eda Lorca family in the house on the Acera del Darro. Isabel had not yet been born \/ Photo: FGL Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Until July 2017 the property was located by mistake in different guides in the estate number 46, occupied by the Montecarlo hotel, already demolished. According to a report of the Ministry of Culture, the examination of the census and a visit to the house still shows “in a certain way, half-hidden on the first floor, elements that appear in the literary description of Isabel Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca lived there during the eight years of his high school studies<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The house, very spacious and open to the Darro River, not yet arched, had a garden and two floors, according to Isabel’s description. “Our house had a wide doorway. At the entrance was the courtyard with its pillar and granite columns (…). At the front was the garden gate, a large overhanging fence. At the entrance, on the right, there was a low room that was used to store the carpets in summer (…). To the right was the staircase leading to the second floor”.<\/p>\n

On the second floor were the bedrooms: that of father<\/a> and mother<\/a> and “the girls”, or rather the sisters Concha<\/a> and Isabel. On the other side, that of brothers Federico and Francisco<\/a>. In addition, there was another room occupied by Isabel<\/a>, the only unmarried sister of Don Federico.<\/p>\n

Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca lived there during the eight years of his high school studies, which he prepared between the Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n School<\/a> and the General Technical Institute<\/a>, where he took his exams.<\/p>\n

The family did not feel the break with the countryside, which was largely due to the constant visit of relatives from the Vega and the occasional transfers that they organized after the Corpus Christi festivities to the estates of Don Federico in Valderrubio<\/a> (then known as Asquerosa) (Disgusting) coinciding with the beginning of the agricultural work.<\/p>\n

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Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca teaching his sister Isabel to read in the house on the Acera del Darro \/ Photo: FGL Foundation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some remote memories of events lived in the house reappeared many years later in poems such as 1910 (Intermission)<\/em>, included in Poet in New York<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the upper floor of the house a room gave access to the bedrooms. There Federico composed his peculiar masses and led his prayers. His brother Francisco recalls those scenes of a naive faith in which “Federico demanded the sharpest attention from his audience” particularly in the sermons in which he imitated Father Arcoya<\/a>, a very popular priest later linked to Franco’s cause after the Civil War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9005,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[118],"ruta":[64],"class_list":["post-9000","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-complementary","ruta-route-of-granada"],"trid":"167","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/9000"}],"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\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}