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The tavern and store of Antonio Barrios, El Polinario<\/em><\/a>, on Calle Real in the Alhambra, was a place, no longer existing, for meetings and flamenco evenings attended by Lorca, Falla<\/a> and some of the friends of the El Rinconcillo<\/a> gathering. The link between the young men and El Polinario was his son, the international composer and concert pianist \u00c1ngel Barrios<\/a>, who befriended Falla in Paris in 1907, at Isaac Alb\u00e9niz’s house, and who combined his tours abroad as a guitarist with the Tr\u00edo Iberia (formerly called Tr\u00edo Granada) with his stays at his father’s house-bar.<\/p>\n

\"Antonio<\/a>
Antonio Barrios, right, accompanied by two strangers at the entrance of the El Polinario tavern. \/Photo: Alhambra and Generalife Board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The tavern was built on the site of a 14th century Arab bathhouse that was demolished in 1534. The establishment of El Polinario was expropriated by the State in 1934 and then demolished, although a small courtyard and the pillar of a fountain remain. In its place is the museum dedicated to Angel Barrios, where an important legacy of paintings, drawings, scores and correspondence is kept, given to the Alhambra Board by his daughter after his death in 1964.<\/p>\n

Among the works are a watercolor by John S. Sargent and the parchment, signed by Ravel, Richard Strauss and Benavente, among others, for which Santiago Rusi\u00f1ol named El Polinario “consul of art in the Alhambra”. In 1918, in his garden, adjacent to the Alhambra, Garc\u00eda Lorca photographed the four scenes of The History of the Treasure <\/em>, a very short story with his own verbal script in which Lorca himself, \u00c1ngel Barrios, Manuel \u00c1ngeles Ortiz<\/a> and Miguel Pizarro<\/a> took part as actors.<\/p>\n

The entrance, through a gate, gave way to a hallway that connected with a small patio. To the left was the tavern with a walnut counter and, opposite, a window overlooking the street through which products were dispatched outside. It was the only establishment in the Alhambra neighborhood that sold practically everything: haberdashery, tobacco and groceries including hams from the Alpujarra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Meeting<\/a>
Meeting at El Polinario tavern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The back room was the meeting place. Illustrious visitors were taken there and entertained with wine and food until his son picked up the guitar and El Polinario broke into song. Antonio Barrios was also a painter and used the boards of the cigar boxes to make his sketches. He even exhibited in group shows. The studio was located on the second floor, in a room with a lot of character that, according to Antonina Rodrigo, had paintings dedicated to him by Zuloaga<\/a>, Bacarisas, L\u00f3pez Mezquita and Sargent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9185,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[117],"ruta":[64],"class_list":["post-9180","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-important","ruta-route-of-granada"],"trid":"179","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/9180"}],"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\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}