Ramos González, Carmen

Carmen Ramos. Photo: Antonio Ramos Espejo

Nanny and playmate of Federico García Lorca (La Ramito, she was affectionately nicknamed) in Fuente Vaqueros, a living memory of the poet’s childhood years. Carmen was only six years older […]

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García Rodríguez, Isabel

Isabel García Rodríguez

Younger sister of Federico García Rodríguez, father of Federico García Lorca and, therefore, aunt of the poet, born in Fuente Vaqueros on April 9, 1876. She died in Valderrubio at […]

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González García, Aurelia

Cousin Aurelia photographed by Penón in 1956.

First cousin of Federico García Lorca, daughter of Francisca García Rodríguez, known familiarly as Frasquita, sister of her father, born in Fuente Vaqueros in 1888, with whom the poet shared […]

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González García, Enrique

Enrique González García

Teacher educated in the spirit of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Free Teaching Institution), first cousin and confidant in his youth of Federico García Lorca, born in 1900 in Fuente […]

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Palacios Ríos, Matilde

First wife of Federico García Rodríguez, father of Federico García Lorca. Matilde was born in Fuente Vaqueros in 1860, daughter of Manuel Palacios Caballero, a wealthy farmer and landowner, who also […]

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Giner de los Ríos García, Gloria

Gloria Giner de los Ríos García

Pedagogue attached to the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Free Teaching Institution), renovator of the teaching of History and Geography in Spain, teacher at the Normal School in Granada, first, and […]

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García Lorca, Isabel

Isabel García Lorca

Fifth descendant of the marriage between Vicenta Lorca Romero and Federico García Rodríguez. Federico’s younger sister, after Francisco and Concha García Lorca (the second son, Luis, died in 1902 at the […]

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Lorca Romero, Vicenta

Vicenta Lorca in one of the rooms of the house on the Acera del Casino. You can see a young Federico reflected in the mirror.

Teacher at the kindergarten for girls in Fuente Vaqueros between 1893 and 1897. Mother of Federico, Luis, Francisco, Concha and Isabel García Lorca. She came into the world in the […]

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García Rodríguez, Federico

Federico García Rodríguez

Father of Federico García Lorca. He was a landowner in the Vega of Granada, an enterprising person who knew how to get rich when the right circumstances arose, but who […]

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García Picossi, Clotilde

Clotilde García Picossi

Daughter of Francisco García Rodríguez, brother of García Lorca’s father, and one of Federico’s favorite cousins. She was born in Fuente Vaqueros, although she soon moved to Granada. Her family […]

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García Lorca, Francisco

Federico and Francisco (right) García Lorca.

Spanish writer, diplomat and professor. Brother of Federico García Lorca, he belonged to the El Rinconcillo at the Café Alameda, along with many other artists from Granada at the time. […]

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García Lorca, Concha

Concha García Lorca. Photo: Federico García Lorca Foundation

She was the third of the García Lorca siblings. She was born in 1903, in Fuente Vaqueros. Her childhood, like that of her siblings, was spent in the Vega of […]

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Fernández-Montesinos Lustau, Manuel

Manuel Fernandez-Montesinos. / Photo: FGL Foundation

Spanish doctor and socialist politician, last constitutional mayor of Granada during the 2nd Republic. He was shot by the rebels at the beginning of the Civil War. In the 1920s, […]

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De los Ríos Urruti, Fernando

A leading figure in Spanish socialist thought, he was a professor of law at the University of Granada and the University of Madrid. As Minister of Education and Minister of […]

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De los Ríos Giner, Laura

Laura de los Ríos Giner

Daughter of Fernando de los Ríos Urruti (professor of Political Law in Granada, socialist politician and teacher, friend and protector of Federico García Lorca, as well as Minister of Education […]

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