Tan tan, ¿quién es? El otoño otra vez..

My entrance of this week has to be with poetry. Today my oldest daughter who is only three years old surprised me with this poem from Federico García Lorca that learnt today at school:

Tan, Tan
¿Quién es?
El otoño otra vez.
¿Qué quiere el otoño?
El frescor de tu sien.
No te lo quiero dar.
Yo te lo quiero quitar.
Tan, tan
¿quién es?
El otoño otra vez.

Beautiful, isn´t it?

Do you know that Federico´s family had in total 4 houses?
The first one is the house where he was born in Fuentevaqueros in 1.898, very well-known for everybody. Federico´s father, named also Federico, inherited it on his wife death, Matilde de Palacios. They were married 14 years but without descendants so Federico got married again with Fuentevaqueros´ school teacher, Vicenta. They had 4 children: Federico, Francisco, Isabel and Concha.

The second house (1.904) is in Valderrubio, just 3 Km away from Fuentevaqueros. At the time Federico lived this village was called ¨Asquerosa¨, just like that. He usually omitted this name in his works because he didn’t like it so when it meant his village he never mentioned the name of ¨Asquerosa¨. To me this is the most genuine house, specially the servant´s small house, where he spent so much time talking to them and where there are still a lot of letters written by him.

The third one (1.909) is in Granada and it is the only one which was not kept. When Federico was assassinated, his father sold this house before leaving to New York. It was next to Isabel La Católica Theatre.

The fourth and last one is ¨La Huerta de San Vicente¨ (1.925), the last house Federico´s father bought. This one was a summer house for the family and it was named of ¨San Vicente¨ in honour of Federico´s mother, Vicenta. When Federico´s father bought it in 1.925, the house was 2 km from Granada´s center, in what it is known as ¨la Vega de Granada¨. Now it is in the center so the views that Federico saw from his balcony as he wrote have changed a lot…

Have a good weekend !
Rocío