{"id":9089,"date":"2021-08-31T09:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/lugar\/the-rosales-house\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T06:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T06:11:04","slug":"the-rosales-house","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/the-rosales-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosales’ Family House"},"content":{"rendered":"

The house of the Rosales Vallecillos family was the place where Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca took refuge on August 9 after the violent and successive searches perpetrated in the Huerta de San Vicente (San Vicente Farmhouse)<\/a> in the days following the uprising of July 18.<\/p>\n

The poet believed that the Rosales brothers’ links – including Luis<\/a>, the poet- with the Falange guaranteed his immunity. Lorca remained in the house until the early afternoon of August 16 when he was arrested and taken to the Gobierno Civil by a squad commanded by the former member of of the CEDA party Ram\u00f3n Ruiz Alonso<\/a> who was accompanied by several individuals, including Juan Luis Trescastro<\/a>, and the chauffeur.<\/p>\n

Lorca spent a week of tremendous uncertainty in a room on the second floor. His main pastime consisted of playing the piano and reading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The poet lived those seven days on the second floor of the mansion occupied by Luisa Rosales Camacho, sister of the Rosales’ mother, in a spare bedroom on the second floor from which he went down to eat or read. During the bombings Lorca joined the improvised shelter where the whole family went.<\/p>\n

The house, located at 1 Angulo Street, was transformed into a hotel. The room where Lorca lived does not exist and the house itself was extensively renovated. The dining room retains one of the few original vestiges, the door through which Ruiz Alonso entered in search of the poet.<\/strong> Both the columns of the courtyard and the large stairs were demolished.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The poet Luis Rosales.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The poet arrived on the night of August 9 in the cab that the Lorcas used to rent for their transfers. Lorca had no special relationship with the family except with Luis, the poet. In addition to the first floor, the property had two upper floors. In the first one lived the Rosales Camacho family; the second one, which was almost independent, was occupied by the aforementioned aunt Luisa, sister of Do\u00f1a Esperanza, the mother. The poet lived in an adjoining bedroom during that week of tremendous uncertainty. His main pastime consisted of playing the piano and reading.<\/p>\n

The arrest of Lorca was a major operation. The house was surrounded by armed men ready to intervene in case of escape.<\/strong> According to Ian Gibson’s version, on the afternoon of the arrest only the aunt and mother of the Rosales and a sister were at home. Due to the resistance of the Rosales’ mother to hand over Federico, Ruiz Alonso went to the Falange headquarters in search of one of her sons, Miguel Rosales<\/a>, who returned home. Ruiz Alonso accused Lorca of being a Russian spy and of having done more damage “with the pen than others with guns”.<\/p>\n

\"Ram\u00f3n<\/a>
Ram\u00f3n Ruiz Alonso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the other hand, the version of the journalist Eduardo Molina Fajardo insists that Ruiz Alonso, before presenting himself for the first time in the house, went in search of Miguel Rosales who was in a barracks in San Jeronimo street instructing some volunteers on weapons and who agreed to accompany him in the arrest.<\/p>\n

The arrest took place without resistance. Lorca went out walking, dressed in his pajama jacket and a dark suit and got into the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9092,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[117],"ruta":[64],"class_list":["post-9089","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-important","ruta-route-of-granada"],"trid":"172","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/9089"}],"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\/9092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}