Lorca Literary Footsteps

The Centro Federico Garcia Lorca sits in the heart of Granada behind a facade of slanted concrete panels and large glass windows. It houses the personal archive of the poet, including thousands of his manuscripts, letters, and drawings…

The statue of the monk Pedro de Alarcón stands at the center of Plaza de la Universidad, his bronze robes facing the old Law School building. This square exists because the city gutted a dense neighborhood of small houses in the late…

The Hotel Reina Cristina features a facade of clean white plaster broken by a dense grid of wrought iron balconies overlooking the narrow street. It sits atop the remains of the old Nasrid palace of the poet Ibn Zamrak, a man who once…

The Palacio de las Columnas features a neoclassical facade defined by four massive, weathered stone columns that rise directly from the sidewalk. Built in the late eighteenth century for the Countess of Luque, the building served as a…

The faded red awning and the glass-fronted display cases on the corner of Plaza del Campillo mark Chikito. This space began as the Alhambra Café in the early twentieth century, a place where the poet Federico García Lorca and his friends…

The bronze statue of Mariana Pineda stands in the center of this plaza, clutching a piece of embroidery. In eighteen thirty-one, the authorities accused Pineda of stitching the words equality, liberty, and law onto a flag for local…