Federico García Lorca remains in memory nine decades after his assassination between August 17 and 18, 1936, when he was shot by the coup faction, barely a month after the military uprising against the Republic by Franco's troops, between the Granada towns of Víznar and Alfacar. Ninety years later, his remains still have not been found and identified, but his voice remains in his verses, in his works, and in a land that continues to recognize itself in them.
On this anniversary, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, wanted to vindicate the figure and legacy of the Granada poet through a video published on his X account. With a copy of Blood Wedding in his hands, Moreno recalled the universal dimension of a writer whose work, in his opinion, is inseparable from Andalusian identity. “Andalusian culture, nor universal, would not be the same without the colossal figure of García Lorca,” he pointed out.
The Andalusian president also wondered “Who has not been moved by his works, how much our land owes to his work,” before emphasizing that “his legacy remains and continues to illuminate readers and artists.” For Moreno, Lorca also represents “the best of Andalusia” and reading him continues to be a gateway to the community's identity: “To read Lorca is to know the soul of Andalusia.”
Se cumplen 90 años del asesinato de Federico García Lorca. Poeta universal, genio andaluz y autor de una obra fundamental del teatro y la poesía española.
Reivindicamos su legado y su figura colosal con gran orgullo.
¡Leer a Lorca es conocer el alma de #Andalucía! pic.twitter.com/WokLJKYptu
Granada walks with Lorca again
The land where the poet was born has concentrated a good part of the commemorative acts. The Provincial Council of Granada held an institutional tribute this Monday at the Federico García Lorca Park in Alfacar, dedicated both to the writer and to all victims of the Spanish Civil War. The day concluded with a performance by Alba Molina, accompanied on guitar by Víctor Franco.
The commemoration will continue this Tuesday, August 18, with a new edition of 'The Last Walk', a march called from 6:30 p.m. by the Granada Association for Truth, Justice and Reparation together with some twenty associations, collectives, unions, and left-wing parties.
The walk will commemorate the victims of Francoism and, in a special way, Lorca on the 90th anniversary of his execution. It will also be a route through some of the places linked to his last days. It will start from the Colonia de Víznar, an estate that during the Republic was used as a holiday colony and later became an improvised prison by the Francoists, and will end in the García Lorca Park in Alfacar.
The route, named 'The Last Walk', thus brings back to the streets a name that for decades remained linked to silence and an absence still unresolved: that of the poet's remains.
Madrid will also make Lorca walk
The memory of Lorca will not be limited to Granada. Madrid hosted this Monday night the performance art action 'Night Haul', an artistic proposal that symbolically made the poet travel through different points of the capital coinciding with the 90th anniversary of his assassination.
The intervention, directed by La Juan Gallery, is part of the program 'Proud Culture', promoted by the Ministry of Equality in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture. The proposal takes as reference the night hauls that took place during the Civil War and the dictatorship to resignify the concept and make the writer "symbolically return to the city."
Nine artists transported on foot a sculpture of Lorca made by Fernando Sánchez Castillo and belonging to the exhibition La Perla Peregrina of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. The route began at 8:30 p.m. at the Palacio de Velázquez, in the Retiro Park, and passed through the Cuesta de Moyano, the surroundings of the Prado Museum, the Royal Botanical Garden, Huertas street and Matute square, to conclude around 11:00 p.m. in Santa Ana square.
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