Curiouser and curiouser.... It’s been more than six years since the local authorities in Alfacar, near Granada, Spain began the initiative to dig up the mass grave believed to hold the remains of Federico García Lorca, assassinated at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War because of his left-wing sympathies and his open homosexuality. Divided public opinion and various court edicts have gone back and forth since 2003, and the digging finally began in October 2009. But the project will end this week, and they haven’t found Lorca:
from The Telegraph (UK):
“Lorca’s civil war grave found empty,” by Fiona Govan
“One of Spain’s most enduring mysteries has remained unsolved after archaeologists exhumed a mass grave without finding the remains of Federico García Lorca.... The project on a remote hillside outside the southern city of Granada was intended to trace the fate of the nation’s most celebrated modern poet and playwright. But the two-month excavation of an area of parkland about the size of half a football pitch will come to an end this week and as yet no human remains have been unearthed.”
More on Federico García Lorca:
Our biographical profile of Lorca
Federico García Lorca’s body to be dug up (2003)
Artistic power remains in the place where poetry was made: the poet’s home (2007)
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