{"id":9436,"date":"2021-08-31T09:47:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/lugar\/aynadamar-spring\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T09:38:15","slug":"aynadamar-spring","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/aynadamar-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuente de Aynadamar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fuente Grande, Fuente de las L\u00e1grimas (Fountain of Tears) or Fuente de Aynadamar (Aynadamar Spring), according to Arabic terminology, is a fountain located in the upper part of Alfacar (Granada) about two hundred meters from the Garc\u00eda Lorca Park<\/a>, where the olive tree where the burial of the poet was erroneously located in 1979 by a commission of experts convened by the Diputaci\u00f3n de Granada.<\/p>\n

The fountain water emerges through small bubbles reminiscent of tears, and the fountain is lenticular, drop-shaped or even eye-shaped, which reinforces the association with weeping.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The constant presence of water in Lorca’s poetry, from his youthful poems included in Book of Poems<\/em><\/a> to the posthumous Divan del Tamarit<\/em><\/a>, to the washerwomen’s songs of Yerma<\/em><\/a>, inspired by those sung by the women of Valderrubio at the fountains of La Teja and La Carrura<\/a>, further amplify the metaphorical implications between the places of childhood and death.<\/p>\n

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Photograph of the Aynadamar Fountain or the Fountain of Tears from the period.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Fuente de Aynadamar, in addition to its proximity to the site of executions during the Civil War and the post-war period, is symbolically linked to those dramatic months of repression for morphological reasons. The fountain water emerges through small bubbles reminiscent of tears, and the fountain is lenticular, drop-shaped or even eye-shaped, which reinforces the association with weeping.<\/p>\n

In 1940, after traveling to Granada to learn directly about the circumstances of the death of his friend, D\u00e1maso Alonso wrote a famous poem entitled The Big Fountain or the Fountain of Tears (Between Alfacar and V\u00edznar)<\/em> which definitively linked the allegorical link between the fountain and the execution of Lorca and hundreds of people of leftist ideology who were executed without trial in a strip of several kilometers<\/a> between Aynadamar and the town of V\u00edznar.<\/p>\n

From a terminological point of view, the word Aynadamar comes from Arabic (ayn ad-dama\u02bfa)<\/em> and is composed of two words, \u02bfayn (‘eye’ and, by extension, ‘source’ or ‘fountain’) and dama\u02bfa <\/em>(tears), i.e. Ain Addamai. The water that emerges from the ground emanates from a turgidity of groundwater that comes from the so-called aquifer of the sierras of El Padul and La Peza, which covers a huge area, from the Natural Park of the Sierra de Hu\u00e9tor and Alfacar towards Cogollos Vega, G\u00fc\u00e9jar Sierra and Valle de Lecr\u00edn.<\/p>\n

The original irrigation channel that channeled water from the fountain dates back to the Zirid Arab period before the eleventh century, although the hydraulic infrastructure was later renovated by the Andalusians around 1013. The route, which is still in use, is built with mortar walls and the flow, until relatively recently, reached the Albayc\u00edn, specifically to the Long Square<\/strong> from where the liquid, in more remote times, rose through a siphon to the Alcazaba Cadima. Today the route only goes as far as the district of El Fargue.<\/p>\n

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Photograph of the Aynadamar Fountain or the Fountain of Tears from the period.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Between Fuente Granada and V\u00edznar the water runs uncovered through the whole area where the terrible events took place after the military uprising of July 1936 and the subsequent nationalist repression. Parts of the irrigation channel preserve the original work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9437,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[117],"ruta":[122],"class_list":["post-9436","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-important","ruta-route-alfacar-viznar"],"trid":"196","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/9436"}],"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\/9437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=9436"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=9436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}