route 16 Urban green route

The poet visited Compostela on several occasions and had an idyll with our city that flourished in the Six Galician Poems, which would be published in 1935. Years earlier, in 1932, he had been in Santiago with the theater company La Barraca; from that room there is a photo that shows Federico on the stairs of the Quintana; this is how the sculptor Álvaro de la Vega portrays him here, with the same blue cover of the theater group and a cordial gesture. The piece looks at Rosalía, symbolically fulfilling the writer’s wish to pay homage to the poet and bring her a white camellia. A tree of that variety was planted nearby.