Looking for Lorca

Conservative Granada was largely on the wrong side during the civil war and the subsequent dictatorship, but it did produce one of the left's great poster boys in poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. Murdered by Nationalists within the first days of the conflict and buried somewhere near the airport which now bears his name, he's the subject of a grisly bit of archaeology as crusading super-judge Baltazar Garzon has ordered the opening of several mass graves in order to find his bones. Here he is in Lanjaron in the twenties, taking the waters, naturally. According to Brennan and (ahem) Chris Stewart, the Alpujarrans mostly ignored the war and didn't really understand politics anyway. No change there, then.

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