Sights and attractions, experience Huerta de San Vicente in Granada

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Calle Virgen Blanca s/n, SW of City Centre
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This house, where Federico García Lorca spent summers and wrote some of his best-known works, is a 15-minute walk south of the city centre. It was once surrounded by orchards. Today the modern Parque Federico García Lorca separates it from whizzing traffic.

The house contains some original furnishings, including Lorca's writing desk and piano, some of his drawings and other memorabilia, and exhibitions connected with his life and work. To get there, head 700m down Calle de las Recogidas from Puerta Real, turn right along Calle del Arabial, then take the first left into Calle Virgen Blanca.

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The Ayuntamiento de Granada (Granada city council) and the directors of this museum should be ashamed of themselves. To visit the Lorca house, you are forced to pay E. 3 for a "guided tour." In our case, in early Sept. 2009, this turned out to be a 15-minute rush through five rooms of the house (the rest is closed off) by an indifferent, extremely unfriendly guide. The tour (there are no explanatory materials or descriptions along the way) contains NO information about Lorca's life or his work -- literally none. The guide (and I wish I were making this up), tells you things like "This is Lorca's piano, that's Lorca's bed, that's a painting by Dali. Any questions?" You'd barely know Lorca was a writer, and you certainly wouldn't know that he was gay, that he was politically radical, or that he was murdered by Franco's Falangists and lies in an unmarked grave some 7 km away. The tour is utterly stripped of any historical or social context whatsoever (I can only imagine at the request of the family) and is not only a disappointment but something of an outrage. Once we got home, I found out more on the Huerta's website than we did at the "museum." Notably, the website indicates that one of the Huerta's goals is to serve as a place of "historic and literary memory" that allows the visitor to "re-experience and comprehend aspects such as ... the events that took place between the 14th of July and the 9th of August of 1936." Wrong. not a word. Shame on you Granada and shame on you Huerta de San Vicente. As a side note, we found it extremely difficult to get information about visiting Lorca sites in general in Granada -- the woman at the tourist office didn't even know of the existence of the Parque de Garcia Lorca near Alfacar, on the site where Lorca is believed to have been shot and buried, and you essentially need a car to get to these places -- public transpo is lacking.