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«En esta casa nació Federico García Lorca el 5 de junio de 1898», reza la placa.

Only seventeen kilometers from Granada, surrounded by poplar groves and fertile lands and bathed by the river Genil, is Fuente Vaqueros, the small hometown of the great Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca, where he was born in 1898, «at five o'clock in June». Near there too, he also left this world when the shadow of fascism started to loom over Europe.
In Fuente Vaqueros as well as in all over Spain, there are monuments and museums built in memory of Lorca. The street in front of his birthplace home bears his name, and in the nearby square a fountain reminds villagers and strangers that, from there, one of the most important voices of the 1927 Generation rose.
Federico García Lorca was shot under an olive tree on one side of the road that goes from Víznar to Alfacar, near the city of Granada. His body still remains in an anonymous common grave, somewhere in these places.
Since 2009, a lot of excavations have been made in many places of the region, without finding anything. However, his fruitful work is at the top of the Hispanic theater, and places him as the most influential and popular poet of twentieth-century Spanish literature.