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- At age 10 he moved with his family to Granada, where he attended a private, secular institute in addition to a Catholic public school. Lorca enrolled in the University of Granada but was a hapless student best known for his extraordinary talents as a pianist.
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Aug 30, 2024 · At age 10 he moved with his family to Granada, where he attended a private, secular institute in addition to a Catholic public school. Lorca enrolled in the University of Granada but was a hapless student best known for his extraordinary talents as a pianist.
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His milieu of young intellectuals gathered in El Rinconcillo at the Café Alameda in Granada.
Federico García Lorca and his family moved from the Vega to Granada in 1909. They exchanged the “sweet golden poplar” for “the city of grays without skeletons” in which everything “runs, plays and escapes”.
Lorca moved to Granada with his family at the age of 11, and the vibrant, multi-cultural city would later bring Lorca into contact with the great writers and artists of the age; H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, the guitarist Angel Barrios and the critic Jose Fernandez Montesinos.
In 1936, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Lorca was arrested in Granada on August 16 due to his suspected socialist views. His brother-in-law had been shot earlier that same day after accepting the position of mayor.
When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, García Lorca left Madrid for Granada. Presumably Lorca hoped that his brother-in-law, who was the socialist mayor of Granada, would be be able to protect him; but the move would ultimately prove to be an unwise decision.