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Spanish Civil War 1936–1939

Parque Federico García Lorca, Alfacar (Fuente Grande)

Memorial

GuideSpanish Civil War 1936–1939
AreaAndalusia
TypeMemorial
When17–19 Aug 1936
Time to allow40 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS37.24440, -3.55340
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The story

Federico García Lorca, Spain's best-known poet and dramatist, was arrested in Granada on 16 August 1936 and shot in the early hours near the Fuente Grande spring, with the schoolteacher Dióscoro Galindo and the banderilleros Francisco Galadí and Joaquín Arcollas. Lorca was a Republican sympathiser but not a party member; his killing by the rebel authorities became a worldwide symbol of the war's repression. The provincial council opened this park in 1986 on the spot then believed to be the grave, beside an old olive tree. Excavations in late 2009 found no human remains there, and the location of Lorca's body remains unknown.

What you can see today

A landscaped park with fountains and walls bearing lines of Lorca's poetry, a monolith dedicated 'to Federico García Lorca and all victims of the Civil War' and the olive tree long taken as the execution spot.

Plan your visit

Open access, free, on the GR-3101 above Alfacar. A commemorative evening of music and readings is held each 18 August.

Where sources disagree: The date of Lorca's death is given as 17, 18 or 19 August 1936, and the exact site and his grave are unknown; the 2009 dig at the olive tree found nothing.

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