{"id":9135,"date":"2018-12-03T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/lugar\/civil-government-1933-1944\/"},"modified":"2021-11-15T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:02:28","slug":"civil-government-1933-1944","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/civil-government-1933-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Gobierno civil 1933-1944"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former Civil Government (Gobierno Civil) of Granada, where Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca was taken on the afternoon of August 16, 1936, after his arrest in the house of the Rosales Vallecillos family<\/a>, had an entrance on Duquesa Street and occupied part of the current Law School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The building, in very poor condition already in the times of the Republic, was ceded in 1944 to the University of Granada, which demolished it and built it again to house, in 1955, the faculties of Sciences, Law and Philosophy and Arts.<\/p>\n

Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca was confined in a small room now demolished containing a square table, an armchair and a couple of other chairs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Gobierno Civil moved to its present location in the M\u00fcller Palace on Gran V\u00eda. The Gobierno Civil was then located a few hundred meters from the house of the Rosales where Federico lived as a refugee for a week and where he was arrested and transferred by car by a group of fascists commanded by the former deputy of the CEDA party Ram\u00f3n Ruiz Alonso<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the triumph of the uprising of July 18 and the surrender of the Republican civil governor, C\u00e9sar Torres Mart\u00ednez<\/a>, the commander Jos\u00e9 Vald\u00e9s Guzm\u00e1n<\/a> (1891-1939) who, until his departure in April 1937, designed a fierce repression against leftist sympathizers that claimed thousands of dead, mainly shot on the walls of the cemetery of Granada and in V\u00edznar<\/a>, a small town located twelve kilometers north-east from the capital. According to the investigations, Vald\u00e9s gave the order to assassinate the poet after calling General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano who responded with a coded phrase: “Give him coffee, lots of coffee”.<\/p>\n

Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca was confined in a small, dilapidated room containing a square table, an armchair and another couple of chairs. There he was seen by several people, among them Jos\u00e9 Rosales<\/a>. In the room, which overlooked the Botanical Garden, he remained for a period of time ranging from ten hours to two full days, according to the different versions of the investigators.<\/p>\n

The confinement room, according to research presented in March 2018 by historian Miguel \u00c1ngel del Arco Blanco, was located on the same level as the current “department of Constitutional Law on the second floor facing the Botanical Garden. It would be a room measuring about four meters, rectangular, in which there was a table, two chairs and an armchair. It was like an office and had a barred window.”<\/p>\n

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Law School office where the room where Lorca was allegedly held was located.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Lorca and his companions, among them Miguel<\/a>, one of the Rosales brothers, arrived at the then Gobierno Civil that hot August afternoon, Commander Valdes was at the front.<\/p>\n

While Lorca remained under arrest, several brothers of the Rosales family set in motion a laborious, but ultimately futile, plan to free Federico. In addition to Miguel, who raised the alarm, the first to arrive, at nightfall, were the brothers Luis<\/a> (who came from the Motril front) and Jos\u00e9 Rosales, Pepiniqui<\/em>, accompanied by other Falangists such as Cecilio Cirre.<\/p>\n

Luis requested Federico’s release and even signed a statement in which he justified his decision to welcome the poet in his house, after the violent searches in the Huerta de San Vicente (San Vicente Farmhouse)<\/a>, and in which he emphasized the non-existence of complaints against him.<\/p>\n

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Ram\u00f3n Ruiz Alonso, on an election poster that appeared in the newspaper ‘Ideal’.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That night of August 16, Luis had a bitter confrontation with Ruiz Alonso, the character who predictably filed the complaint and set the arrest in motion. Both confronted each other at the Gobierno Civil. According to testimonies, Luis Rosales told him: “Why did you show up at the house of a superior without an order and take my friend away? Ruiz Alonso repeated three times: “Under my sole responsibility”, to which Luis replied: “Square up and go”.<\/p>\n

The other Rosales brother, Jos\u00e9, waited for the return of Commander Vald\u00e9s and had another serious confrontation with him. According to his own confession, he entered the office pushing and shoving and wielding a pistol.<\/p>\n

According to the reconstruction of Jos\u00e9 Luis Vila-San Juan in the book Garc\u00eda Lorca Murdered. The Whole Truth<\/em>, Jos\u00e9 Rosales went so far as to point a gun at Vald\u00e9s in his office: “Did you order Ruiz Alonso to enter my house to arrest Garc\u00eda Lorca?” he asked him. “I have not sent anyone to your house,” Vald\u00e9s replied. Lorca was in an office on the main floor. Jos\u00e9 was the last of the brothers to see him alive. When he returned to the government the following day, after obtaining an order for his release, he was no longer there.<\/p>\n

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