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90 Years After the Murder of Federico García Lorca: His Last Hours, the Disarray of the Falangists and the Mystery of His Remains

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In the early hours of August 18, 1936, the Spanish poet and playwright was shot in an open field near Víznar with a master and two anarchist bullfighters. His journey from Madrid to Granada against the advice of his friends, his arrest, unsuccessful attempts to be released and his clandestine execution

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90 years after his murder, theories assert that his execution arose from a multiple conspiracy

·Barcelona, Spain
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In the early hours of August 18, 1936, the Spanish poet and playwright was shot in an open field near Víznar with a master and two anarchist bullfighters. His journey from Madrid to Granada against the advice of his friends, his arrest, unsuccessful attempts to be released and his clandestine execution

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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At dawn he was murdered in the mountains of Granada, where the ravine of Víznar, along with two skinny flags and a lame school teacher. 1936. Federico García Lorca's...

·Madrid, Spain
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The dream, Camarón sang by the work and grace of Federico García Lorca, goes over time, floating like a sailboat, and this is how the poet, floating on the wind, is presented to the anniversary of his murder. "If they killed me, would you cry a lot?", it is said that he asked the nanny of his nephews, Angelina, hours before the fatal outcome. Early on 18 August 1936, a ravine between Víznar and Alfacar and a shooting when the light appeared. "Th…

On August 18, 1936, in the early years of the Spanish Civil War, the famous poet and playwright from Granada was killed by the rebel forces. His tragic physical disappearance made his figure the universal symbol of persecuted art and cultural resistance. Read more

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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"They killed Frederic / when the light appeared. / The platoon of executioners / did not dare to look at his face. / They all closed their eyes; / they prayed: neither God saves you! / He fell dead Federico / -blood on the forehead and lead in the bowels - / ... That it was in Granada the crime / know - poor Granada! -, in his Granada." Antonio Machado wrote these verses in October 1936. Just two months earlier, Federico García Lorca had been mu…

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El Salto broke the news on Monday, August 17, 2026.
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